Bye Bye Bernie! Kerik To Be Indicted! Giuliani Got Caught Lying in Kerik Court Case in 2006

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Bye Bye Bernie! Kerik To Be Indicted! Giuliani Got Caught Lying in Kerik Court Case in 2006

Edited on Fri Oct-12-07 07:20 PM by Dems Will Win

KERIK LIED TO INVESTIGATORS ABOUT MOBBED UP FIRM HERE AT WALKER'S IN NYC

The truth is Giuliani let certain Mob members not only hang around Bernie, who started off as his DRIVER, but also mobster Gideon Chern hung with Rudolph. Plus the Mob gang running the city school busses were never expelled. Giuliani appeared to go after the Mob leadership but mysteriously left a lot of the dons and operations alone!

These mobsters actually gave Kerik a DIAMOND Police Badge from TIFFANY'S aty a birthday party the mayor attended. Maybe the Feds should Giuliani about that party as HE WAS THERE!

JUDY RULIANI DRESSED AS MOBSTER GUN MOLL

Then Rudolph was caught LYING to prosecutors in Kerik's court case (see below). Just what we need! Another corrupt Republican running for public office...

PLEASE RECOMMEND TO GET THE WORD OUT!

The New York Daily News noted that Kerik’s latest charges “will have direct implications for Giuliani.” I think that’s a safe assumption.

Giuliani’s Kerik problem goes back years, but let’s not forget one key detail: Giuliani’s former chief investigator briefed the mayor on Kerik’s alleged organized crime connections before Giuliani named Kerik police commissioner.

Mr. Giuliani, testifying last year under oath before a Bronx grand jury investigating Mr. Kerik, said he had no memory of the briefing, but he did not dispute that it had taken place, according to a transcript of his testimony.

Mr. Giuliani’s testimony amounts to a significantly new version of what information was probably before him in the summer of 2000 as he was debating Mr. Kerik’s appointment as the city’s top law enforcement officer. Mr. Giuliani had previously said that he had never been told of Mr. Kerik’s entanglement with the company before promoting him to the police job or later supporting his failed bid to be the nation’s homeland security secretary.

This is kind of tough to spin. Either Giuliani knowingly blew off a briefing about Kerik’s ties to organized crime, or Giuliani’s chief investigator warned him about it and Giuliani made Kerik police commissioner anyway.

Giuliani’s defense is a faulty memory. He told the grand jury that he had been briefed on Kerik’s background, possibly more than once, but “must have simply forgotten” the concerns. At one point during the grand jury proceedings, a senior Bronx prosecutor, asked Giuliani, “As you sit here today, your testimony is, and correct me if I am wrong, that you don’t recall ever being told that a close friend of your correction commissioner had been indicted in a federal case?”

Mr. Giuliani responded: “I don’t recall that until 2004. I can’t tell you that it wasn’t, but I don’t — I don’t — I don’t remember.”

Ladies and gentlemen, your Republican front-runner.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13211.html

...witnesses have been appearing before a grand jury in White Plains, several sources said.

Last spring, Kerik turned down a deal to plead guilty to tax charges. Since then, the probe has expanded to include other charges, the sources said.

The indictment will have direct implications for Giuliani, the sources said.

For one, another Giuliani commissioner and a top inspector general during Giuliani's years as mayor will be called as witnesses to describe the secret meeting in Tribeca.

The Giuliani officials are Raymond Casey, former head of the Trade Waste Commission, a city agency set up to keep the mob out of the carting industry, and Michael Caruso, former inspector general with the city Department of Investigation.

In July 1999, Casey and Caruso met with Kerik, then the city Correction Department commissioner, at Walker's bar on North Moore St., court papers reveal.

At the time, Casey was investigating Interstate Industrial Corp., a company that employed Kerik's brother Donald and the best man at Kerik's wedding, Larry Ray.

An Interstate affiliate had applied to operate a waste transfer station in Staten Island, and Casey was looking into allegations that the firm had ties to the Gambino crime family.

During the meeting, both Interstate and Ray were discussed, according to an affidavit filed in a civil suit by Caruso's lawyer, Mark Freyberg.

Kerik has admitted that at the time Interstate was secretly paying to renovate his Bronx apartment. Prosecutors are now expected to allege that the free renovations amounted to Kerik accepting bribes, the sources said.

In return for the renovations, the feds will allege, Kerik used his city position to try to influence the city's probe of Interstate, the sources said.

During the Walker's meeting, Kerik allegedly told Casey that he did not see the allegations concerning Interstate's ties to the mob as credible, according to a source familiar with the case.

Kerik noted that his brother worked for the company, and said, "If I thought Interstate was mobbed up, do you think I'd let my brother work there?" according to the source.

Kerik also urged Casey to complete his probe and either reject or accept the application - but either way, to do it expeditiously, the source said. Years later, the agency recommended denying Interstate the license.

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Last year, Kerik pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges brought by the Bronx district attorney in connection with receiving payments totaling $165,000 from Interstate, but he was not charged with bribery.

The expected obstruction of justice charges from the feds are related to Kerik's statements to Bronx prosecutors, the sources said.

The expected federal tax fraud charges are linked to Kerik's failure to pay taxes on the income he received from Interstate, the sources added.

Giuliani has extensive ties to Kerik, promoting him to correction commissioner, then to police commissioner. Giuliani later also hired him at his firm, Giuliani Partners, and recommended him to President Bush for the job of Homeland Security secretary.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/10/12/2007-10-12_prosecutors_expected_to_file_charges_aga-1.html

Sources: Feds have case against Kerik
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO, Newsday staff writer | anthony.destefano@newsday.com
6:49 PM EDT, October 12, 2007

When ex-police commissioner Bernard Kerik stood in disgrace at Bronx State Supreme Court on June 30, 2006, and admitted he improperly received gifts, state prosecutors told the judge there wasn't enough direct evidence of bribery.

But the latest news about Kerik reports that he is the subject of a federal bribery, obstruction of justice and tax probe that could lead to an indictment next month, sources said.

Legal sources contacted by Newsday Friday believe that federal investigators have come up with new witnesses and legal tactics to strengthen bribery charges that eluded Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson.

"Whatever the Bronx knew, the (U.S.) Southern District has more," said one former federal prosecutor who didn't want to be named.

A spokeswoman for Michael Garcia, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, would neither confirm nor deny any probe. Kerik's attorneys Joseph Tacopina and Kenneth Breen of Manhattan couldn't be reached.

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Kerik admitted during his guilty plea in 2006 to taking the gift and speaking to city officials about Interstate, saying the company was clean. He was fined $206,000 and paid $15,000 in civil penalties.

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During the Bronx probe of Kerik, Caruso was questioned extensively about the Walker's restaurant meeting, according to court papers. But despite the fact that he testified truthfully, Caruso claims in his lawsuit that he was forced to resign in March 2006 because DOI officials thought his testimony didn't implicate Kerik in wrongdoing. The city and DOI officials have denied the allegations in Caruso's lawsuit for wrongful termination being handled by Freyberg.

Kerik Spoiling for a Fight

Bernard Kerik, the disgraced police commissioner and former Rudy Giuliani pal, wants it to be known he's spoiling for a fight if federal prosecutors decide next month to charge him with new crimes. "If the prosecutors in any event make the fateful decision to charge Bernie Kerik, we will fight it in court, and he will win," Kerik's attorney Kenneth Breen said Friday.

While Kerik may be ready for a fight, the specter of court hearings and a public trial wouldn't be welcome news for Giuliani's presidential campaign, which has tried mightily to distance itself from Kerik since he fell from grace back in late 2004. That's when questions of corruption and other wrongdoing surfaced and scuttled Kerik's nomination to be President Bush's homeland security chief.

An indictment and federal prosecution of Kerik would air anew allegations that Kerik accepted gifts from mob figures while serving as corrections chief and police commissioner in Giuliani's New York City mayoral administration. Those proceedings would be playing out just as Giuliani, the current GOP frontrunner, would be trying to convince primary voters he ought to the Republican presidential nominee.

Adding to the awkwardness, Giuliani's good friend, Judge Michael Mukasey, will likely have been confirmed as the U.S. attorney general by the time the charging decision is made next month, meaning Mukasey's Justice Department would be handling the prosecution. Mukasey has consistently recused himself from matters involving Giuliani.

The Washington Post reported this spring that Kerik was told by federal prosecutors that he was a target likely to be indicted by year's end on multiple felonies including tax evasion and possible corruption counts. Those charges would be on top of the ones Kerik pleaded to last year in New York state court, getting probation.

The entire case will come to a head next month. That's because Kerik agreed to extend the statute of limitations on the tax charges until mid-November to give him time to challenge those charges through an arcane tax appeals process.

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The nervous countdown is already beginning among Giuliani's supporters.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/12/kerik_spoiling_for_a_fight.html

Rudy Giuliani is trying to keep his distance from Bernard Kerik, the former New York City mayor's police commissioner who could be facing new federal charges in a case built on a secret meeting of city officials eight years ago.

"Bernie was a mistake," the Republican presidential candidate told FOX News earlier this week when he admitted that he should not have recommended Kerik — whose closet later was found to have several skeletons in it — to be President Bush's homeland security secretary in 2004.

Kerik withdrew his nomination to replace Tom Ridge in December 2004 at the 180,000-employee department after revealing that he had just found out that his housekeeper/nanny was an illegal immigrant.

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Raymond Casey, then Giuliani's head of the Trade Waste Commission, a city agency set up to keep the mob out of the carting industry, and Michael Caruso, former inspector general with the city Department of Investigation, supposedly are telling the grand jury that when Kerik was New York City's Correction Department commissioner, he tried to influence them in a probe of Interstate.

The investigation centered on whether Interstate, which wanted to run a waste transfer station in Staten Island, was tied to the Gambino crime family. Kerik's brother Donald and the best man at Kerik's wedding, Larry Ray, both were working for Interstate at the time.

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With Kerik now in the doghouse, Giuliani's presidential ambitions could be weighed down by opponents seeking to tie the former friends together. Speaking at an editorial board meeting with FOX News earlier this week, Giuliani said his error in recommending Kerik to be homeland security secretary should not reflect his overall judgment.

"I've made a lot of right decisions in selecting people, and the end result is having had a considerable amount of success as mayor of New York City, having a considerable amount of success as U.S. attorney, in business. That doesn't mean I haven't made some mistakes. And Bernie was a mistake. I should have checked him out more carefully than I did," Giuliani said.

"On the other hand, Bernie Kerik was an outstanding police commissioner. Wasn't just a good police commissioner, was an outstanding police commissioner. He was an outstanding corrections commissioner. He got results that were enormously impressive," Giuliani added.

Giuliani said while Kerik "was a person of tremendous achievement," he "had some things in his background that we should have done a better job of figuring out and finding in our investigatory process, and we didn't."

"Maybe his remarkable success might have also had something to do with the fact that we didn't see the rest of this. You didn't go look for the rest of it; maybe you should have looked at it more carefully.

"If you have a guy that's struggling along, or you have a guy that isn't meeting his goals, if you have a guy or a woman who isn't achieving what they're supposed to achieve, maybe you take a better look at these things. But when somebody is outperforming every single expectation, you sort of go with them," Giuliani said.
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"He had my strong support, so I'm not trying to in any way get off the hook for it. It's my responsibility and I announced it at the time, and I told the president that, that I take full responsibility for it. But he also had developed, like, his own base of support for that job."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301502,00.html

Will Giuliani be hurt from this Mob bribery scandal when he has to testify in January? Will he be asked about the Tiffany badge and the Mobbed Up birthday party? What else does the US Attorney know?