The ULTIMATE Bernie Kerik Scandal Thread! From TPM:

[Dems Will Win]

Rudy is running on his terror expertise, yet his choice for Homeland Security was Kerik and would have been an all-out disaster. This one decision disqualifies Rudy to be President.

Here's some, check out the rest by clicking on the link!

-- Bribery. Accepted $255,000 worth of renovations to his apartment in an upscale section of the Bronx from a mob-connected construction company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, that sought his help in winning city contracts. Kerik was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections at the time. He already admitted to charges from city prosecutors that the payments constituted an illegal gift.

-- Tax fraud. Kerik failed to report $236,269 in rent for his Upper East Side apartment where he lived from December 2001 to December 2003 with his family. One of the city's biggest real estate developers, Steve Witkoff, paid the $9,650 in monthly rent. Kerik asked for Witkoff's help with the apartment while he was still police commissioner of NYC, and the real estate mogul made the payments because the two "anticipated doing business in the future."

-- More tax fraud. Kerik also failed to disclose $20,000 in consulting fees from a computer software company and $75,953 in royalties for writing his autobiography.

-- Even more tax fraud. Kerik failed to report wages paid to his nanny (more about that below), claimed $80,000 in phony charitable contributions, and falsely claimed a home office deduction for a home he had not moved into yet.

-- False statements. Lied on application for head of Department of Homeland Security about the nanny, payments from the construction company, and other things he preferred to keep quiet.


From before Kerik's time in city government:

-- Deported from Saudi Arabia. In 1982, Kerik was hired to provide security for a Saudi Arabian hospital. Nine former hospital employees have argued that Kerik acted as enforcer for his employer, Nizar Feteih, who used the security team to keep an eye on a handful of female hospital employees, as well as the men with whom they were in contact. Kerik is accused of inappropriate surveillance, including wiretapping staff members.

Kerik declared one doctor disliked by Feteih as drunk and had him arrested (and later deported) under Saudi law. The outrage prompted an investigation by the Ministry of Health, which determined that many allegations of security abuse by Kerik were accurate. Kerik was fired over the incident and deported.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004683.php

[MADem]

1. Gift that keeps on giving--love that pic, too!!! nt

[kurth]

2. He'll meet his soulmate in prison

[Dems Will Win]

3. Another love nest apartment waiting for him!

[Dems Will Win]

4. kick

[Augdog20]

5. Times and righties vs. Kerik, Rudy's top cop

NY Times editorial:
"Indicting Mr. Kerik" -Just delicious!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/opinion/10sat1.html

Look, Ma, even the right :D dislikes Kerik and says Rudy Giuli's devotion questionable!:
Michelle Malkin:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923123/posts

Libby Quaid at townhall.com:
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2007/11/09/
analysis_kerik_could_tarnish_giuliani

Yeah, they're righties, but they make good arguments.