Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs

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Source: nytimes



November 3, 2007

Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs
By MICHAEL POWELL

This article was reported by Russ Buettner, Michael Powell and William K. Rashbaum and was written by Mr. Powell.
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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.

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“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.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/us/politics/03kerik.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

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1. "Missed" or closed his eyes?

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2. That may have been one of those times....

he just HAD to take a phone call from his wife. :eyes:

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3. The 'Good Ol' Boys' in action.....

Which one is one boss?