Bernard Kerik scandal list

[lame54]

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TPM's Ultimate Kerik Scandal List!
By Paul Kiel - November 9, 2007, 6:38PM
No rundown of Bernard Kerik's ethical shortcomings could ever hope to be comprehensive, but we've done our best. So here, without any further ado, is our grand catalogue. Thanks to TPMm research hounds Adrianne Jeffries, Will Thomas and Peter Sheehy and TPMm readers for all the help.

In today's indictment:

-- 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...

[sam sarrha]

1. no wonder he was appointed to HLS Secretary.. he is their kind a guy.

[Dems Will Win]

2. lame 54, long quotes violate copyright law, about 4 paragraphs only...

[0007]

3. Watch junior and his dick fight for Giuliani when the going gets tough!

I'm indeed surprised that Sammy "The Bull" Gravano) isn't the Secretary of Treasure.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Well, 'innocent until proved guilty', but it certainly looks bad!

[Octafish]

5. Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar & Petro-Turd Bernie Kerik

Thanks for the heads-up to a most important article, lame54.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2788428

Bernie stinks and he works for satan's monkey. It's good to see the word getting around.

[Venus Dog]

6. In Iraq, Kerik Boasted of Being White House 'Eyes and Ears'

At Bernie's arraignment, when the judge asked him what his highest level of education is, Bernie replied, "B.S."

Well, we already knew that, but the real question should have been, "Bernie, what did you do in Iraq for 3 months during Bremer/CPA days when all those millions went missing? Aren't you suppose to be a cop?"

"There could only be so many big dogs in the pen," Juett recalls. Kerik would drop hints of his proximity to the White House. "That was intimated in conversations with us," Juett says. For example, Kerik would tell his staff, "You know, when the President's office calls you on the phone at home at night, and tells you to get on the plane..." Or: "Two days ago, I was standing in the Oval Office, talking to the President. This is what he wants, and this is what we're gonna make happen." Juett doesn't know if that was true -- "but it was what he said."

And Kerik used that image of proximity to get access to U.S. viceroy L. Paul Bremer III. "He had the charisma to cut through some of the problems and get through to Bremer when we needed help moving forward with the Ministry of Interior and the police," Juett remembers. "Bernie had that acumen." He missed that acumen when Kerik left Iraq. "We lost a lot of good access when Kerik left," Juett says. "Not only Bremer access, but a conduit to the Oval Office."

Just what Kerik used it for remains something of a mystery. Months after he returned from Iraq, in October 2003, he boasted in a press conference with President Bush, "We brought back more than 40,000 police, 450 cars in Baghdad, stood up 35 police stations in Baghdad." But by the following Spring's dual uprisings of Sunni insurgents and the Shiite Mahdi Army, the police force proved to be either ineffectual or disloyal. Ever since, the Iraqi police have proved to be riddled with problems. That's not something that can fairly be laid at Kerik's feet, as Juett says: "He wasn't there long enough, unfortunately, to have the dubious distinction of making that fail." In 2006, Kerik reflected, "Looking back, I really don't know what their plan was."

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