NYT: Kerik Described as Close to Deal on a Guilty Plea

Kerik Described as Close to Deal on a Guilty Plea
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: June 29, 2006

Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, is close to reaching an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to having accepted improper gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars while he was a city official in the late 1990's, two people with information on the plea negotiations said yesterday.

Under the proposed agreement, Mr. Kerik would plead guilty to failing to report accepting roughly $200,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment — a violation of the city's administrative code. The work, officials have said, was paid for by a New Jersey construction company that the city had long accused of having ties to organized crime.

Mr. Kerik, 50, who accepted the gift when he served as correction commissioner under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, will not face jail time, but is expected to pay a substantial fine, those with information about the case said. He is also expected to admit having failed to report receiving a loan.

A guilty plea would represent a further fall from grace for a public official whose dazzling ascent in city government took him from the rank of third-grade police detective in 1993, when he served as a volunteer campaign bodyguard and chauffeur for Mr. Giuliani in his mayoral campaign, to becoming the city's police commissioner in 2000, a post he held at the time of the Sept. 11 terror attack.

Mr. Kerik nearly rose higher still, to the rank of cabinet secretary, when President Bush nominated him to head the Department of Homeland Security in December 2004. But he was forced to withdraw a week later, citing possible tax problems involving his family's nanny....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/nyregion/29kerik.html

"nominated him to head the Department of Homeland Security" - by Dimson

:puke:

:banghead:

to being a hob nailed jack booted gestapo brown shirted pimp?

I mean, did any of these guys play by the rules? This uninterrupted string of corrupt people who abused their positions for self enrichment is astounding.

:rofl:

This Kerik story is so enjoyable. I'm going to be chuckling about this all day. Hey George! Is that 9th Street or.........

This is major league corruption. I hope that the fine is really, really substantial.
I wouldn't want to be in Bernie's shoes when the IRS comes calling.

And to think this guy almost became the head of Homeland Security. Scary.

so firefighters and rescue workers could crash and have a shower between shifts. He kept the key, the bastard....

A couple of her men:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

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.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm (by DUer Gloria: )

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

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And I (the poster) will claim credit for insight. Back when KERIK's book for REGAN was debutting, she hosted him on her Faux interview show. His tale was of his missing mother, who inexplicably abandoned him as a tot. She never showed up for a custody hearing. The premise of the book was that this tough uber-male had this hole in his heart, thereby setting the pants on fire of tough wingnuts of all genders. As she probed him about the book, she and KERIK locked smouldering, HOT gazes. Once the mother-thing was done, she moved on to his heroics (which were what?) on 9-11. She asked WHERE HE WAS when the planes hit. Without missing an eye-lock, he said, "Stepping out of the shower." She swallowed and held a long breath. The image of nekkid KERIK was plainly etched on the Faux camera lens during the LONG pause. He added, "In my office." Another LONG pause. He added, "After WORKING OUT." There was another swallow. I suspected BACK THEN that something was cooking between publisher and author, and it weren't spaghetti. Only 2 or 3 years later, when KERIK's many other past deeds floated to the surface like dead bodies did it become official that there was indeed WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE between the two, that the two of them alternated their WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions with WORKING OUT together, that he had used NYPD to track down what happened to his mother, that he used NYPD to provide security for his personal WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions, that the WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVENEST was a city-paid apartment near the WTC intended as a rest site for rescue and recovery workers. The REGAN-KERIK Faux interview was pure musk in the air. Why don't Shrub's handlers hire some of US for intelligence work?

headquarters downtown)

:)

Why no jail time? He deserves it.

:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2367949

Giuliani's presidential ambitions have always been gag-inducing. Kerik's embarrassment of Bush over his nomination and withdrawal as Homeland Security chief did put a dent in them. Nice to see him back in the news.

A December 2004 article refreshes - an ironic choice of verbs given the rank stench of the corruption - the memory:



Giuliani and Bush aren't bothered by the corruption except when their lackeys are too stupid to cover it up. Kerik embarrassed Giuliani (though they are apparently still good buddies) and Giuliani embarrassed Bush (who does not forgive).

as board member of Taser, Kerik recorded a profit of more than $6.2 million according to this 2004article

$6.2 million + upgraded apartment value - fine = a substantial gain


well, at least, it involved 'tens of thousands of dollars' in 'gifts' vs. 'looting' :sarcasm: Kerik could have gotten 3 to 15 years in Louisiana for 'looting'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2363060&mesg_id=2363060

Is the kid allowed to roam free, and go on TV and write books and YEARS later, "negotiate" his plea?

just askin'

piece of shit he would turn out to be.
Y'know, sorta in the vein of pig Rove's mother's suicide

apt that was donated for the use of site workers as they cleaned up, many of whom contracted illness's due to toxic exposure. Kerik is a piece of shit.

THE MOTHER FUCKER WOULD GET 15 YEARS FOR THAT


OOPS HE'S NOT BLACK




FROM SNOPES

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/looters.asp


Claim: Photograph captions describe a black man "looting" and a white couple "finding" supplies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Status: True.

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