Kerik indictment could wreak havoc for Giuliani
By Joe Mathews
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Being a top aide to New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani allegedly brought a lot of perks to Bernard Kerik -- a new Jacuzzi, a "marble entrance rotunda" installed in a Bronx apartment, $9,000 a month in rent payments for a flat on the Upper East Side -- many of them paid for by people who had business with the city.
Those and other favors were laid out Friday in a corruption indictment against Kerik, New York's former police commissioner. The charges open a window on Republican presidential candidate Giuliani's inner circle, detailing how Kerik lived the high life during Giuliani's law-and-order administration...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said: "The fact that Rudy Giuliani shepherded the career of Bernard Kerik despite his ethical problems speaks volumes about the Republican Party and its candidates." Giuliani is not mentioned in the 29-page Kerik indictment, and it is unlikely he will be called as a witness, according to an attorney familiar with the case. But it could prove difficult for Giuliani to distance himself from Kerik's travails.
Although Giuliani said last week that the two men had not talked recently, they were professionally and personally close. The former mayor is godfather to Kerik's daughter, and Kerik wrote in his autobiography that Giuliani had "made" him.
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