Posted on 06/30/2006 7:43:14 AM PDT by STARWISE
A year and a half after his Homeland Security nomination sank over ethics questions, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty Friday to charges he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in gifts while he was a top city official.
Kerik pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors in a deal that spared him any jail time. He instead was ordered to pay $221,000 in fines at the 10-minute hearing.
Kerik acknowledged accepting $165,000 worth of renovations on his Bronx apartment from a company attempting to do business with the city — a New Jersey construction firm with alleged links to the mob.
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Yet another corrupt New York politician and union police thug.
It's a good thing he never assumed the Homeland Security Chief role.
He takes $165K and gets no jail time???
Yikes!
Just saw his courthouse interview, and wondered why he hasn't seen his children in 4 weeks. I'm sure he wasn't in jail, was he?
He was in Jordan. Despite his crimes, this guy is on the right side and does a lot of dangerous work re: WOT.
Yeah, and he came with Guliani's recommendation.
ping
Crooked cop? Hooda thunk?
The only honest uncorrupted politicians or high ranking govt officials are the one's who haven't been investigated and caught yet.
I had to think about that for a second. LOL. Maybe he'd make a perfect Kevin Spacey?
WHEN titian-haired publishing titan Judith Regan took up with former top cop Bernard Kerik, she thought she'd met her match. And vice versa.
But the illicit relationship came tumbling down, a friend of Regan's told me, not when she discovered her married lover had another mistress. It ended horribly after Regan learned Kerik's wife was pregnant.
After that jolting discovery, Regan — as volatile, driven and foul-mouthed as any man — began using other words to describe her lover.
"He's maniacal. Insane," a terrified Regan confided in a pal. Kerik, she said, had Regan followed to Los Angeles. He showed up at her house. Threatened her.
Now that Regan has emerged as the final nail in Kerik's bid to serve as chief of Homeland Security, questions are erupting over whether Kerik's admitted mistakes — he once used city cops to research his memoir — extended into even more intimate areas.
One thing is clear: This man had serious issues with impulse control.
The Kerik-Regan pairing may look unlikely — she's Vassar-bred, he's a high-school dropout. But two friends used almost identical terms to describe the duo. "They are male and female versions of the same people," they said of the "power-addicted" couple.
One friend told me Kerik lured Regan into a relationship with the oldest line in the married man's playbook: "My wife doesn't understand me. I'm in a loveless marriage."
Said the friend, "Judith is smart. I couldn't believe she'd fall for that." But she was also "crazy about the guy."
The yearlong affair, which began as Regan prepared to publish Kerik's memoir, was an open secret in town. Yet Regan used a "beard" — a male friend with whom she pretended to be involved.
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The glitterati operate in a whole different moral universe.
Let's not forget that Kerik was Giuliani's boy, and he represents a serious potential problem for Giuliani should the latter decide to go for the WH.
Dear synbad600,
"He was in Jordan. Despite his crimes, this guy is on the right side and does a lot of dangerous work re: WOT."
Sorry, no. Corrupt cops are never on the "right side."
Corrupt cops fundamentally undermine a free society.
sitetest
" Problem? Why with Bernie at my side, the ding-a-ling vote is in my pocket. Tee-hee."
PREE-cisely.
How far they fall. This guy did a great job in NYPD and at Riker's. A rather legendary figure.
With feet of clay, it seems!
Kerik worked from 1982 to 1984 as chief of investigations for the security office at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, one of the kingdom's premier hospitals, where members of the royal family are treated. Six members of the hospital security staff, including Kerik, were fired and deported after an investigation in 1984 by the Saudi secret police.
"Despite his crimes..."
Immediately upon his return to the U.S., Kerik was hired as a prison warden in New Jersey, then as an NYPD police officer.
His climb to NY Police Commissioner was stratospheric, and he had access to highly confidential intel subsequent to 9/11.
This creepy con artist is NOT on the right side.
Pray tell, synbad, what "dangerous work re WOT" is this criminal entrusted with? And who is trusting him?
Dear beckett,
I don't think that Mr. Kerik's corruption represents a major hurdle for Mr. Giuliani's presidential candidacy.
Every major politician who has served in an executive capacity will have a Kerik or two in his past. You hire enough folks, a couple will turn out to be stinkers.
sitetest
Read his autobiograpy. The WOT started long before W was elected.
I would not trust Wikipedia as a reliable source. Can't anyone go there and edit passages?
With FRIENDS like these, do we REALLY want Rudy the RINO as president?
Rudy, the pro-abort gets your vote?
Dear Clemenza,
"Rudy, the pro-abort gets your vote?"
Oh, HELL NO!!!
However, my refusal to vote for the man shouldn't cloud objective analysis.
I don't think that his association with Mr. Kerik will cost him much at all.
sitetest
Boy, that photo sure dampers the ol' enthusiasm for a Giuliani candidacy, doesn't it?
Kerik's bio = tailormade for the Oprah Book of the Month Club.
You can bet Rudy's opponent will make a big deal of it. This has the potential to greatly hurt Rudy.
LOL. Yeah, and remember, these are not
photoshopped---Rudy really dressed like this.
Are you accusing of being gay, by the way? Nothing is quite so boring as a humorless prig.
Apparently not, as he leads every 2008 POTUS poll I have seen.
"In this get-up, I'll get all those ding-a-lings who voted for Hillary."
Besides, I look better in heels than she does."
LOL
Because they are not as smart as they think you are.
What are the chances that you or I would get a special deal like this. Correct, exactly zero. Keeps his pension too I'd bet. Makes me want to puke.
He was a consultant to the Israelis and governments all over the world. We woulda been great!
Here's some more of New York's finest: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658596/posts
He was a consultant to the Israelis and governments all over the world. We woulda been great!
Bill Clinton is a consultant all over as well.
Usually, I could care less what people do on their off hours but this guy shows a serious lack of judgment. He wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes. I'm surprised the enemy (dems) didn't wait until he took the post before all this came out to slime the Bush admin.
I hereby accept the apologies from all those folks here on FreeRepublic who called me a flaming @sshole a few weeks ago for suggesting that Mr. Kerik is a corrupt SOB who belongs in jail. LOL.
He sure got off light just like that pathetic Sandy Berger.
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