[Alberta's Child]

He was convicted of lying to Federal officials because of false statements he made during his background check for the DHS post he was nominated for in the Bush administration.

He was convicted of tax evasion because of a scam where he had a contractor doing several hundred thousand dollars of work on his multiple homes while he was the police commissioner in New York City under Rudy Giuliani. He never paid the contractor for the work, but in lieu of this the contractor received millions of dollars in city contracts.

[Gay State Conservative]

He never paid the contractor for the work, but in lieu of this the contractor received millions of dollars in city contracts.

OK then,assuming he was,in fact,guilty I'd say that three years inside sounds pretty reasonable.One would think that a cop would be in a better position to understand what it's like inside than most and,as a result,would make it a point not to do anything that would land himself there.

[nathanbedford]

So Bernard Kerrick does three years for income tax evasion and for lying to federal officials.

Income tax evasion has become an art form in America but the real crime is committed by federal officials whether elected or bureaucrat who contrive massive income tax avoidance schemes for fatcats. Somehow this is considered servicing constituents rather than selling out. First the congressman passes an income tax law that is virtually incomprehensible, empowers the Internal Revenue Service to pile regulation upon regulation until it is actually incomprehensible, and then rides to the rescue and provides tax breaks.

As to lying to federal officials, Barack Obama is guilty of that every time he says good morning to his secretary because he is incapable of telling the truth about anything. So we have the spectacle of federal officials lying to the public, lying to Congress, lying to each other, but not doing very much time for it.

How much time should Susan Rice do? How much time should Clapper do? How much time should Attorney General Holder him do?

Why is it illegal to lie to IRS agents or to cheat on one's taxes when the IRS has been committing blatant crimes against citizens and the administration has been blatantly lying about those crimes to protect itself?

How much time did Bill Clinton do for lying under oath and trying to fix a court case to protect his purse? We know he perjured himself because the DNA tells us so.

The lesson to be learned is that when radical leftists gain political power corruption and cronyism are inevitable and cynicism is the unavoidable stepchild as the public sees more and more corruption.

Vote for a lefty and you vote to kill the rule of law and substitute the kind of politics that we see surrounding the income tax laws. Vote for a lefty and you get a maladministration of laws nobody read and regulations no one human being can comprehend. A vote for a lefty brings us to a Third World state, a banana republic, a place where influence, cronyism and bribery are the only ways a citizen can neutralize his government and make an otherwise honest living for his family.

But Bernard Kerrick does three years.