Mr. Kerik now faces a possible indictment on a range of federal felony
charges, including perhaps tax evasion and bribery, stemming in part
from his acceptance of $165,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment
paid for by a construction firm suspected of links to organized crime.
In June 2006, he pleaded guilty in the Bronx to state misdemeanor
charges relating to the same renovations.
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The Times reported on Saturday that Mr. Giuliani ignored a number of
warning signs when he chose Mr. Kerik as his police commissioner.
It reported that Mr. Giuliani, in testimony last year to a state grand
jury, acknowledged that the city investigations commissioner, Edward
J. Kuriansky, had told him that he had been briefed at least once
about Mr. Kerik’s connection with the company.
Mr. Giuliani said, though, that neither he nor any of his aides could
recall being briefed about Mr. Kerik’s involvement with the company.
And the paper reported that a review of Mr. Kuriansky’s diaries, and
investigators’ notes from a 2004 interview with him, now indicate that
such a session indeed took place.
What is more, Mr. Kuriansky also recalled briefing one of Mr.
Giuliani’s closest aides, Dennison Young Jr., about Mr. Kerik’s
entanglements with the company just days before he was appointed
police commissioner, according to the diaries he compiled at the time
and his later recollection to the investigators.
From The New York Times, 11/5/07:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/giuliani-praises-former-police-commissioner/
Giuliani Praises Former Police Commissioner
By Michael Cooper
Rudolph W. Giuliani offered praise on Monday for his disgraced former
police commissioner, Bernard B. Kerik.
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Gotta hand it to ole Ghoulie, great judge of character, eh?
Harry
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