Giuliani Says Ties to Kerik May Hurt Him With Voters - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum

ViolaLee · #1 (**permalink**) 04-01-2007

Guiliani has denied for years that he knew Bernie Kerik was tied to the mob through a company called Interstate Industrial Corporation.

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Mr. Kerik pleaded guilty last year in a New York State court to two misdemeanor charges, admitting that he illegally accepted $165,000 in free renovations of his apartment from a contracting company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, which city regulators suspect of having ties to organized crime.

Giuliani recommended Kerik to Bush as Head of Homeland Security after Tom Ridge resigned. Bush thought he was great!

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With Kerik at his side, Bush said in announcing the nomination at the White House on Dec. 3 that his pick was "one of the most accomplished and effective leaders of law enforcement in America."

Meanwhile Guiliani knew all along about Bernie Kerik's law breaking, and still made him NYC police chief and recommended him to Bush. Reminds me of how Guiliani knew about how unsafe the air was around ground zero, after having received a memo from the EPA telling him it was not safe to breathe, but he ignored that too.

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The Times reported on Friday that Mr. Giuliani, testifying under oath in April 2006, told a grand jury that the former city commissioner of investigation remembered briefing him on some aspects of Mr. Kerik’s relationship to Interstate in 2000, before he named Mr. Kerik as police commissioner.

Mr. Giuliani had previously said publicly that he had not known of those connections until years later.

Mr. Giuliani said he did not recall any of the briefings remembered by the chief investigator, Edward Kuriansky. He suggested that perhaps he had forgotten them because Mr. Kuriansky had cleared Mr. Kerik to be elevated to the post.

He said appointment calendars kept by Mr. Kuriansky do not show that he was briefed on Interstate. But partially redacted copies of the calendars, which were provided to The Times by New York City, list one meeting of a kind that Mr. Giuliani typically attended at which a former Interstate employee, who was also a close friend of Mr. Kerik, was listed as a topic for discussion.

This is not a man to be trusted with the Presidency. He is already a known liar now, with both of these instances.

Links

Homeland Security Nominee Kerik Pulls Out (washingtonpost.com)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/us...cs/01rudy.html

SamInTheSouth · #2 (**permalink**) 04-04-2007

Close ties to anyone who has engaged in corruption is never good for anyone. Whether or not this will hurt Giuliani in the end remains to be seen. This has come out pretty early so by the time primary season rolls around it will likely be old news.

Steve · #3 (**permalink**) 04-04-2007

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Originally Posted by Samantha

He is already a known liar now

If Americans insisted on voting for people who've never lied, there wouldn't have been a soul elected to office in the last 40 years...

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