Thanks for posting this! Today Bernie, tomorrow Rudy?
I knew his Kerik connection would come back to bite Giuliani in the butt. Just didn’t think it would be so soon.
And ye shall know them by the company they keep.
This is just another example of why Rudy would be so dangerously weak as a Commander in Chief. Our enemies would play him like a fiddle.
Its called homeland security...
kerik should have known better, the streets of paterson, nj, taught him how organized crime and the system works.
Giuliani and Kerik partners in grime.
this is bad for rudy.
NOTE TO ALL:
1. The Dallas Cowboys ARE NOT “America’s Team”. In fact, the vast majority of Americans can not and could not EVER stand them. The cheerleaders are just fine.
2. Rooty Giulani IS NOT “America’s Mayor” and never was. NYC quit wasting your time.
3. Ditto for Kerik as “America’s Mayor”. Like the majority of east coast/west coast “playas”, he couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the rest of the country and we feel likewise about him.
That is all ;)
*APPLAUSE*
And yet, “The Beast” remains at the helm when her crimes are much, much worse and those around HER are being arrested left and right, day and night!
(I’m NOT a Rooty supporter, I’m just sayin’...)
Zing....
NY POST——December 12, 2004
WHITE HOUSE NAILED KERIK
By JOE McGURK, JENNIFER FERMINO and STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN
Bush administration officials demanded to know if ex-New York top cop Bernard Kerik had any “nannygate” troubles — and the would-be homeland security chief insisted that he didn’t before he finally came forward and admitted he hired an illegal Mexican house servant, according to a published report.
The officials even warned Kerik that he ran the danger of humiliating his family, himself and President Bush if he didn’t come clean about any nanny problems, the Washington Post reported in today’s edition. But still Kerik responded with “firm denials,” the paper said. It was only after Kerik said he dug deeper and found out
that a woman he employed to help his family while he was training cops in Iraq didn’t have the proper working papers, the Washington Post reported.
Yesterday, in a press conference outside his New Jersey home, Kerik said that Bush aides came to him, but did not give details. “This was asked of me by the president’s staff when this was in the vetting process,” he said. “It wasn’t the vetting process [that is at fault]. This was my fault. Something I should have focused on earlier.” A bleary-eyed and downtrodden Kerik also offered up an apology for getting the Bush administration and his patron — ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani — in the middle of the confirmation mess. “It’s a mistake I am dealing with now . . . I owe an enormous apology to the president for whatever distraction this may have caused,” Kerik said.
A source expressed the Bush administration’s displeasure with Kerik in an interview with CNN — saying they wished he had ‘fessed up about the nanny before the process got this far. “As Mr. Kerik admitted himself, he should have brought this to our attention sooner. The president respects his decision and wishes Commissioner Kerik and his wife well.”
Kerik, 49, the city’s former top cop, was nominated by Bush to take over for Tom Ridge as the head of the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees both terror protection and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
He withdrew his nomination Friday after it was discovered he hired a Mexican nanny who did not have the proper papers to work in the United States — and he did not pay the proper taxes on her. Despite stepping down, and making his apology yesterday, Kerik told reporters he believed he still might have won nomination to the Homeland post. “Who knows if I could have gotten through the process with this,” he said. “I think, personally, it may have got through, but it would have been messy.”
However, Giuliani contradicted his protégé. “The odds were because of this issue he wouldn’t get confirmed,” Giuliani said yesterday. The former mayor also took responsibility for not recognizing the nanny’s immigration problems earlier. “It’s an embarrassment to me and Bernie [and] to those of us who supported him,” Giuliani said. Giuliani personally apologized to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, putting some of the blame on his own shoulders.
“I told Andy this was our responsibility,” Giuliani said. In another potential black eye for Kerik, it was revealed yesterday that a bench warrant was issued for him in 1998 after he repeatedly failed to make payments on a New Jersey condominium he owned.
A tenant in the East Rutherford condo complex who refused to reveal her name last night told The Post that Kerik owed $20,000 in maintenance charges. Although that number couldn’t be confirmed by authorities, foreclosure proceedings had begun on the apartment at 39 Triumph Circle.
But several Kerik aides were quick to say he hadn’t even known about the warrant until Friday night. The condo situation “didn’t have anything to do with this,” Kerik bluntly stated, a claim echoed by Giuliani. But Kerik’s condo woes weren’t the only problems hindering his bid to lead DHS.
* He was under scrutiny for garnering $6 million by selling off stock options in Taser International, a company looking to strike a deal with DHS.
* Questions still surround the reasons why he left a six-month assignment to train Iraqi police officers after just 14 weeks.
* Kerik had to fork over $2,500 to New York City’s Conflict of Interest Board after he used NYPD investigators to research his autobiography.
Additional reporting by Murray Weiss
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/36263.htm
If he was a Democrat he could just enter a rehab facility and all would be ok. Oh wait...If he were a Democrat none of this would be news....never happened.
The United States Attorney - Southern District of New York:
Today we announce the unsealing of an indictment charging former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik with conspiring to receive over a quarter of a million dollars in free renovations from a contractor doing business with the city of New York, with tax crimes, and with lying to to the federal government. Kerik is charged with engaging in a scheme to deprive the city of New York of his honest services while he was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction and New York City Police Department.
A company that was seeking to do business with the city paid more than $250,000 for renovations on an apartment owned by Kerik. During the time Kerik secretly accepted these payments he lobbied city officials on behalf of his benefactors — in effect selling his office, in violation of his duty to the people of the city. Several of the payments were made on his behalf after he had taken an oath as the New York City police commissioner, breaking the laws he had sworn to uphold.
The indictment charges that Kerik went to great lengths to conceal the scheme. He did so: (1) by filing four separate false financial disclosure reports with city officials which concealed the payments, (2) by misleading city officials about his relationship with those who were paying him, and (3) by obstructing the city’s investigation by causing multiple witnesses to lie to the investigators.
Kerik is also charged with obstructing the I.R.S. and filing false tax returns. He repeatedly failed to disclose to the I.R.S. and his own accountants the full extent of his income, and in some cases, provided false information about deductions.
Income items that Kerik is alleged to have failed to report include:
* The $225,000 paid on his behalf for the apartment renovations;
* Over $236,000 in rental payments made on his behalf by a Manhattan developer; and
* About $100,000 he received from a software company and a book publisher.
Kerik also failed to report his employment of an off-the-books nanny and to pay the applicable payroll taxes.
How is Kerik “America’s Cop”—didn’t Bratton serve longer as NYC Commish?
