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Bernie Kerik Jailed As Judge Revokes Bail In Corruption Case
Justin Elliott | October 20, 2009, 1:48PM
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A federal judge has revoked $500,000 bail for former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik in his corruption case and ordered him to jail, Fox reports.
Prosecutors allege that Kerik got renovations on his co-op in the Bronx in exchange for recommending the construction company for city contracts. The trial in the case is set to begin Monday.
Fox 5 in New York reports:
Fox 5 News reports that he is accused of violating terms of a protective order of consent leading up to his corruption trial.The judge, U.S. District Judge Stephen C. Robinson, accused Kerik of giving information that had been sealed to the trustee of his legal defense fund. The trustee leaked the information to a newspaper.
AP notes that the information in question was not published. Anthony Modafferi, the trustee of Kerik's legal defense fund -- whose Web site is down but can be seen here -- allegedly passed information about the case to the Washington Times.
The New York Times has color from the courtroom today, where the judge blasted Kerik as a "toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance."
Here's our post from last December on a $75-a-plate-minimum beefsteak dinner thrown by the legal defense fund in Kerik's honor.
Kerik faces two other trials, one having to do with tax evasion, and the other with lying to the White House while being vetted to be George W. Bush's Secretary of Homeland Security.
Kerik's attorneys did not immediately respond to our requests for comment.
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tchamp77
October 20, 2009 2:10 PM
"Kerik's attorneys did not immediately respond to our requests for comment."
They will if you tell them it's illegal to do so....that seems to motivate them.
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jerryfatheart
October 20, 2009 2:27 PM
This will be great when/if Rudy decides to man up and run for big-time office again in NY.
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EastWest
October 20, 2009 2:30 PM
Just think: Dubya nominated this ass-hat to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
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Lestatdelc
October 20, 2009 8:26 PM in reply to EastWest
Come on now, he would have done a 'heckava job, Bernie'.
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Why oh why
October 20, 2009 2:33 PM
More good news for Guiliani!
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NobleCommentDecider
October 20, 2009 2:41 PM
Crooks and liars like Bush/GOP prefer folks like them who don't mind gaming the system.
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Ann Arbor
October 20, 2009 2:58 PM
Will Kerik still contribute his wisdom to Newsmax?
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commie atheist
October 20, 2009 3:03 PM
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MyMy
October 20, 2009 3:27 PM
Justice at last. What a perfect symbol of the corruption that the 'protection' racket (aka the politics of fear and the 'terrorism-industrial complex') engenders.
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TJF
October 20, 2009 3:30 PM
Giuliani at '04 GOP convention:
"I turned to Bernie Kerik and said 'Thank God George Bush is our President.'"
Play this clip over and over on NY tv next year.
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An Outhouse
October 20, 2009 3:52 PM
Good news for Davis Paterson
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An Outhouse
October 20, 2009 3:53 PM in reply to An Outhouse
David, not Davis.
David Paterson.
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Mrs Panstreppon
October 20, 2009 3:53 PM
KerikLegalTrust.com is down but a 12/2007 version is available here
Send money to:
Mr. Paul D’Emilia
The Bernard Kerik Legal Defense Trust
119 West 72nd Street
Suite 204
New York, New York 10023
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Mrs Panstreppon
October 20, 2009 5:43 PM in reply to Mrs Panstreppon
Scratch that comment. The info is outdated and if I had read Justin's post more closely, I would have known that.
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sisterkevin
October 20, 2009 4:34 PM
Nothing better then a dirty cop going to jail.
Wasn't he also involved a while back with the 1st company to make and market Tasers? Think he had a big financial position with them and promoted their product.
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tpmreader
October 20, 2009 6:35 PM in reply to sisterkevin
From my recollection, there was an abundance of media reports, possibly including 60 minutes Television Program from unfortunately, these torturous and deadly weapons (Tasers, ecetra) and also with alleged prosecutable allegations of these two Individuals, Giuliani and Kerik of numerous innappropriate and/or questionable and/or substaintial insider trading violations on Wall Street exchanges.
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JustAChicagoVoter
October 20, 2009 5:01 PM
Obviously the man needs to be severely punished but I shudder to think what will happen to a former police commissioner in prison. I wonder if he makes it out alive.
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EastWest
October 21, 2009 1:54 AM in reply to JustAChicagoVoter
From your lips to God's ears.
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lousgirl84
October 20, 2009 5:22 PM
Lock him up and throw away the key. This guy is real slime.
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benjoya
October 20, 2009 5:23 PM
ah, bernie, the gift that keeps on giving.
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GTFOOH
October 20, 2009 6:43 PM
Guiliani should be sitting right next to him in jail!
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Richard L. Adlof
October 21, 2009 11:38 AM
Bernie looks . . . Hollow . . . Without his loving man hug partner Mr. 9/11.
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