From The Washington Post, 3/31/07:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/30/AR2007033002425.html?hpid=topnews

Ex-Partner Of Giuliani May Face Charges

Kerik Counts Said To Include Deception During Cabinet Bid

By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers

Saturday, March 31, 2007; Page A01

Federal prosecutors have told Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as
homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, that he is
likely to be charged with several felonies, including tax evasion and
conspiracy to commit wiretapping.

Kerik's indictment could set the stage for a courtroom battle that
would draw attention to Kerik's extensive business and political
dealings with former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who
personally recommended him to President Bush for the Cabinet.

Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential
nomination according to most polls, later called the recommendation a
mistake.

Kerik rose from being a warden and police detective to become
Giuliani's campaign security adviser, corrections chief, police
commissioner and eventual partner in Giuliani-Kerik, a security arm of
Giuliani Partners, which Giuliani established after leaving office in
2001.

Kerik resigned his positions in Giuliani's firm after he was nominated
to the homeland security job.

The former mayor is not in any legal jeopardy, according to legal
sources directly familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because the inquiry is ongoing.

He and his consulting firm have cooperated in the FBI's long-running
investigation of Kerik.

During a recent meeting, federal prosecutors told Kerik's attorneys
that they are preparing to charge Kerik with filing false information
to the government when Bush nominated him to the Cabinet, according to
the legal sources.

Prosecutors are also prepared to charge Kerik with violating federal
tax laws, alleging that he did not declare on his tax returns gifts he
received while serving as New York's corrections commissioner,
including costly renovations to an apartment he had bought, the
sources said.

The FBI is investigating loans Kerik received while he was in private
business with Giuliani, the sources said, as well as information Kerik
had omitted from a mortgage application.

Kerik turned down last month an offer to plead guilty to federal
charges that would have required him to serve prison time.

His attorney, Kenneth Breen, said in an interview that his client had
done nothing wrong.

"He's not going to plead to something that he didn't do," Breen said.

The case against Kerik that federal prosecutors are preparing could
generate uncomfortable political attention for Giuliani because it
focuses on Kerik's activities while the two men were in government
together and were jointly running Giuliani-Kerik, which was paid
millions of dollars for advising upstart companies, doing federal work
and consulting with clients overseas.

Even as Giuliani prepared to announce his presidential bid, his
political team had identified as a political liability the man who had
stood stoically by the mayor's side after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack
on the World Trade Center, according to a strategy memo that surfaced
in January.

Kerik's legal troubles could damage the law-and-order image that is
the bedrock of Giuliani's campaign, said Republican political
consultant Nelson Warfield, who is not aligned with any 2008
candidate.

"Kerik has potential to undermine his image as a competent leader and
someone best fit to fight terrorism," Warfield said.

"Either he had fundamentally bad information about Kerik, or he was
reckless in not knowing enough about a man who was that close to him."

Last night, Giuliani's office declined to comment on Kerik, instead
referring a reporter to remarks the former mayor made earlier this
week in Teaneck, N.J.

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Are they talking about *this* Giuliani?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8&eurl=

Harry