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Here's another take on Kerik---posted by calcowgirl

Feds: Bernard Kerik's a scammer who ripped off city
New York Daily News | November 10th 2007 | THOMAS ZAMBITO and GREG B. SMITH
FR Posted on 11/10/2007 by calcowgirl

EXCERPT Bernard Kerik lied, schemed and sold out the city - all under the nose of his mentor and pal, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

That is the stark portrait painted in the 16-count indictment unsealed Nov 9, 2007 in White Plains Federal Court almost exactly one year before Election Day 2008. While the political fallout remains uncertain, the effect on Kerik's image as a Sept. 11 hero is devastating. In meticulous detail, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia assembled count after count painting Kerik as a money-grubbing liar who tried to cover his tracks.

The indictment says the misdeeds took place as Giuliani promoted his former driver to the top levels of his administration, from running city prisons to heading the largest police force in America.

Kerik, 52, stood ramrod straight in a white shirt, red tie and navy blue jacket to declare "not guilty, your honor" in court, moments before being freed on a $500,000 bail bond backed up by his New Jersey mansion. Outside, he could not resist bringing up Sept. 11:"The worst challenges until this time were my challenges during and after 9/11. This is a battle I'm going to fight."

The indictment charges Kerik with conspiracy, tax fraud, making false statements to the White House, and depriving the city of his honest services.

The indictment starts in 1998, after Giuliani made Kerik (his former bodyguard and driver) Correction Commissioner, continues through 2000, when Giukliani named Kerik police Commissioner, and ends in 2006, after Giuliani's recommendation that Kerik run the Homeland Security Department imploded. >

Prosecutors painted these broad strokes:

Theft of services: Prosecutors say Kerik tried to convince city investigators that a New Jersey contractor secretly renovating his Bronx apartment had no mob ties.

Tax fraud: Throughout his rise in the Giuliani administration, Kerik repeatedly lied to the IRS. His lies included his failure to declare the apartment renovations and Witkoff's rent payments. Prosecutors say that also was true for the $75,000 Kerik received for writing a forward to an art book on Sept. 11 heroes; the $20,000 he got from a computer software firm, and the wages he paid to an off-the-books nanny. He also claimed a bogus $80,000 charitable donation, the indictment charges.

False statements: Prosecutors say Kerik continued the masquerade after leaving the Giuliani administration. He lied to the White House in 2002 through 2004 in applying for several federal positions, including director of Homeland Security. Now Kerik is looking for donations through his Web site to pay his legal bills.

CALCOWGIRL POSTED: Now Kerik is looking for donations through his Web site to pay his legal bills.....set up in Nova Scotia.
Registrant: Domain Discreet
ATTN: keriklegaltrust.com
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2CA
Email: 205533e40a1e672901f6c306095a8c55@domaindiscreet.com
Registrar Name….: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois…: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: keriklegaltrust.com
Created on…………..: Thu, Oct 25, 2007
Expires on…………..: Sat, Oct 25, 2008
Record last updated on..: Thu, Nov 01, 2007

Kerik is looking for donations through his website in Nova Scotia? Nova Scotia? Must be trying to evade US banking laws. Rooty must have a company there that can launder offshore money from his global business connections....make it look like Kerik's getting actual donations.

FReeper CICERO posted: The Kerik indictment says the misdeeds took place as Giuliani promoted his former driver to the top levels of his administration Curious coincidence. Bill Clinton also promoted his former driver, an Arkansas state trooper, to high office--I think deputy director of FEMA. That was his reward for procuring women for him while Bill was governor. So, the reward for corrupt personal service was top positions in law enforcement and national security. Clinton understood that you will be faithfully served by someone whom you can blackmail if they cross you. But the country will not be well-served.

Giuliani Pays Respects, Talks Business Friday, September 10, 2004. Page 5.

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani arrived in Moscow this week to foster business ties between Russia and the United States and express his sympathy for a country reeling from a deadly series of terrorist attacks, a businessman traveling with him said Thursday. "We came here for a few reasons," said Irvin Katsof, founder of Global Strategic Ventures, a U.S.-Russian investment group promoting business ties between the two countries. "To show our support at this difficult time for Russia, this being the week of 9/11. And we wanted to explore business relations -- one of the things that can break through all barriers."

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December 14, 1999

FBI Tracked Alleged Russian Mob Ties of Giuliani Campaign Supporter

By Knut Royce, The Center for Public Integrity

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — The Center for Public Integrity is investigating how billions of dollars of allegedly corrupted money from the former Soviet Union have found a haven in the United States, despite strict anti-laundering laws. Last month, the Center reported how a small San Francisco bank became a conduit for questionable funds as it, like many other banks around the country, aggressively pursued the cash from the former Soviet Bloc.

Today the Center reports on how political campaigns, also aggressively chasing after cash, end up with equally questionable contributions as suspected Russian organized crime figures seek to move into the U.S. political mainstream In future articles, the Center will show how the failure to sift the good money from bad is being replayed all over America.

A prominent commodities trader who acknowledges a business history with a reputed Soviet Bloc crime figure and a notorious arms dealer has been one of (then) New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's top campaign supporters. Giuliani is expected to be the Republican candidate next year for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.

Commodities trader Semyon (Sam) Kislin and his family also lavished thousands of dollars in contributions to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, to the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, to former Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and to a number of state and city politicians. Kislin sits on the New York City Economic Development Board.

Denies Laundering Funds. Kislin denied that his firm had ever laundered funds. "Never, never," he said. New York FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette, told that the Center was preparing an article about Kislin based in part on FBI documents, declined to comment. What the FBI and other law enforcement organizations knew or suspected was never shared with the public.

To his neighbors and friends, the 64-year-old Kislin, who immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, in 1974, is an enormously successful businessman who generously shares his wealth with charitable causes. And to Giuliani, Kislin is one of his staunchest supporters. Kislin and his wife, Ludmila, gave Giuliani a total of $14,250 in direct contributions between 1994 and 1997. In addition, when Giuliani's campaign chest approached the maximum he could spend for re-election in 1997, $9.7 million, Kislin was one of several top backers of the mayor who supported the Liberal Party, which had endorsed the mayor and helped finance his campaign, according to The Village Voice. One of Kislin's companies gave $30,000 to the Liberals.

Kislin also kicked in $7,700 to Jules Polenetsky, who was running with Giuliani for the city's office of public advocate and could share political advertisement costs with the mayor. Giuliani's campaign manager had asked the mayor's major contributors to help finance Polenetsky's campaign.

Giuliani Fund-Raiser. In 1996, Kislin hosted a fund-raiser for Giuliani, a former hard-charging federal prosecutor, at the Lido Restaurant in Brooklyn. And last May 25, Kislin also was a co-chair for a Giuliani fund-raiser at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. The bash raised $2.1 million for his probable run for the Senate next year.

"I did a lot of fund raising for Giuliani," Kislin acknowledged. "He's a good man, doing a good job for the city of New York." Bruce Teitelbaum, the spokesman for Giuliani's Senate campaign exploratory committee, refused through an aide to comment on Semyon Kislin's support of Giuliani. Teitelbaum refused to return calls himself. The mayor's press secretary, Sunny Mindel, said "I don't know anything about the mayor's contributors," and referred the question to Teitelbaum. The campaign did return a $2,000 check last August that it had received at the Sheraton Hotel fund-raiser from Philip Castellano, son of the late racketeer Paul Castellano, even though the younger Castellano has never been accused of a crime. Arik Kislin, Semyon's nephew, contributed $1,000 to the mayor in 1995.

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Here is a partial list of prominent politicians who have received campaign donations from Kislin and other people mentioned in police reports. Records were checked from 1994 to the most recent available.

LONG READ/GO HERE FOR LIST:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hEltFDTB_aYJ:www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx%3Faid%3D323