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If this doesn’t say it all.
The grand jury voted to indict Mr. Kerik on conspiracy to commit wire and
mail fraud, and substantive counts of wire and mail fraud, under a statute
often used in corruption cases, according to people briefed on the vote. The
panel also voted to charge him with lying on a mortgage application and his
homeland security application and with several counts of tax fraud.Democrats and rival campaigns are already looking at the indictment as a
way to call Mr. Giuliani’s judgment into question, and to try to cloud
his reputation in areas in which he is seen as strong: on fighting crime and
corruption.That was apparent after Mr. Giuliani held a question-and-answer session with
students here Thursday afternoon at Iowa State University: as the crowd left
the hall, they were greeted by a man in a suit and a Giuliani mask holding
aloft a sign that read “Free Bernie Kerik!” … ..
Mob
ties. Using a donated Ground
Zero apartment for a love nest. Quit his job in Iraq
after four months. Then there’s the
whole Pirro mess. You might remember Pirro, because she was Sean
Hannity’s political poster girl who got creamed by Clinton.
Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Jeanine F. Pirro,
the Republican candidate for state attorney general, and Bernard B. Kerik,
the former New York City police commissioner, illegally taped conversations
of Ms. Pirro’s husband last year to determine if he was having an affair.
Rudy really can pick ‘em.
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