Posted on 11/03/2007 9:30:33 AM PDT by Fred
If the rise of Bernard B. Kerik under the mentorship of Rudolph W. Giuliani was meteoric, the speed of his fall was breathtaking.
In December 2004, President Bush nominated Mr. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, to head the federal Department of Homeland Security. Seven days later, Mr. Kerik withdrew as a nominee.
A cascade of questions followed about his judgment as a public official, not least that he had inappropriately lobbied city officials on behalf of Interstate Industrial, a construction firm suspected of links to organized crime. Mr. Giuliani defended Mr. Kerik, a friend and business partner, whom he had recommended to the Bush administration. But he also tried to shield himself from accusations that he had ignored Mr. Kerik’s failings.
“I was not informed of it,” Mr. Giuliani said then, when asked if he had been warned about Mr. Kerik’s relationship with Interstate before appointing him to the police post in 2000.
Mr. Giuliani amended that statement last year in testimony to a state grand jury. He acknowledged that the city investigations commissioner, Edward J. Kuriansky, had told him that he had been briefed at least once. The former mayor said, though, that neither he nor any of his aides could recall being briefed about Mr. Kerik’s involvement with the company.
But 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 the police appointment, according to the diaries he compiled at the time and his later recollection to the investigators.
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What’s that saying? You can judge a man by the company that he keeps.
Is that the best slime the Slimes could come up with? That’s disappointing ;)
The Clinton campaign will latch on to this like a junkyard dog. Should the GOP have to defend this kind of crap during a presidential election?
Rudy didn’t want to know much about him. He saw him as effective for HIS purposes and didn’t question him.
Not good policy ... .
The slimes are AFRAID of Rudy.
They want to divide people and have them for for Chilllary, that ice queen.
Isn’t it amusing how they don’t question the company Chillary keeps ... dead bodies, foreign money ....?
To think Bernie Kerik almost ran DHS ...
Wow! That’s quite a picture. “Baby has two daddies.”
The slimes clutching at straws.
One of the things this article didn't mention is that Kerik had an open warrant for his arrest when he was nominated to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security.
This is the kind of sh!t we used to think only happened in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This guy just gets stranger and stranger.
.......as to Kerik's filthy links to organized crime, "Me-First Giuliani" defended the tainted Kerik----his former driver, bodyguard and business partner------whom Giuliani tried to foist on the Nation as Homeland/Sec/Secy so that Kerik could surveil FBI files to advance Power-Mad Giuliani's political ambitions.
"Me-First Giuliani" also connived to shield himself from the fact that he had knowledge of, but ignored, Kerik’s filthiness.
"I was not informed of it,” "Save-My-Rear Giuliani" said when asked if he had been warned about mobbed-up Kerik when he appointed Kerik to the top NYC police post in 2000.
"Security Expert Giuliani" had tripped up royally, and was forced to amend the statement last year in testimony to a state grand jury.
"Me-First Giuliani" acknowledged that the city investigations commissioner, Edward J. Kuriansky, had told him that Kerik was mob-connected at least once.
"Forgetful Giuliani" the security expert said that neither he nor any of his aides could recall being briefed about Kerik’s mob involvements.
But a review of Mr. Kuriansky’s diaries, and investigators’ notes from a 2004 interview with Giuliani indicate that such a session indeed took place.
Even more significant, according to the diaries compiled at the time and Kuriansky's later recollection to the investigators, Kuriansky recalled briefing Giuliani’s closest aides about Kerik’s dirty entanglements just days before Giuliani made his chauffeur, Kerik, (the man who knows where all of Giuliani's bodies are buried) the city's top cop.
Now that people are finally beginning to look carefully at fRudy's business dealings, he better start researching the statutes of limitation.
P.S. I like your tag line, too. LOL
Rudy looks like RINOLD in that pic.
I hadn't noticed Rudy's cousin, before. How nice to have another member of the "family" in NYC enforcement, approving mobbed up businesses.
One night in July 1999, he sat in Walker’s, a bar in downtown Manhattan, defending Interstate to Raymond V. Casey, a cousin of Mayor Giuliani who was chief of enforcement for the city commission that was reviewing Interstate’s license application.
>>Interstate Industrial, a construction firm suspected of links to organized crime
Wow, that is interesting. Interstate Industrial have been campaign supporters of John Edwards and Christi Todd Whitman.
That's the biggest laugh. Why does he get credit for being a security expert when September 11th happened on his watch?
You know how much Giuliani loves the Yankees? Interstate Industrial built Yankee Stadium :)
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