Bernard Kerik Indicted

7:02 pm EST May 26th, 2009 | News | 17 Comments

You remember, Rudy Giuliani’s choice for Homeland Security secretary.

CBS 2 HD has learned that former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on charges of making false statements to White House officials during his vetting for the position of Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The new indictment was handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Washington, and means Kerik will face trials in New York and Washington, D.C.

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17 Responses to “Bernard Kerik Indicted”

  1. Jaim says:
    May 26, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!111!!!!1!!!!

    But this is obviously good news for John McCain Rudy Giuliani.

  2. Eric the Political Hack says:
    May 26, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Also President Bush’s choice for Sec of HLS.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    May 26, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    Well Kerik was Bush’s choice based on a Giuliani recommendation.

  4. jr says:
    May 27, 2009 at 7:07 am

    Kerik was a “national security expert” on Fox

  5. calling all toasters says:
    May 27, 2009 at 8:21 am

    Federal charges? Dammit, I was looking forward to seeing him staying over at the Bernard B. Kerik Detention Center.

  6. calling all toasters says:
    May 27, 2009 at 8:23 am

    Well Kerik was Bush’s choice based on a Giuliani recommendation.

    Still Bush’s responsibility. Just like Michael Brown was, despite being picked because of the recommendation of numerous frat brothers and Babs’s pinochle partners.

  7. Frank DiSalle says:
    May 27, 2009 at 11:22 am

    An indictment is as good as a guilty plea, when it’s leveled at a Republican or a Conservative.

    But when a liberal Congressman is caught with a freezer full of Stouffer’s Lasagna and $90,000 cash, we await the outcome of a trial to see whether or not he’s guilty.

  8. Rheinhard says:
    May 27, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Holy frijoles! I can’t believe I never heard this particular Kerik tidbit before… from Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” (via FDL)…

    The CPA’s Interior Ministry team shared a modest office in the palace with American advisers working with the Justice Ministry. They often brought in Iraqi judges, along with interpreters, for meetings.

    “Bob, who are these people?” Kerik asked Gifford one day. “Who the fuck are these people?”

    “Oh, those are Iraqis,” Gifford replied.

    “What the fuck are they doing here?”

    “Bernie, that’s the reason we’re here.”

    And the war turned out badly. Can’t imagine why.

    It seems like there were a lot of people vying with ol’ Doug Feith for the “Stupidest Fucking Guy on the Planet” title…

  9. The Dark Avenger says:
    May 27, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    But when a liberal Congressman is caught with a freezer full of Stouffer’s Lasagna and $90,000 cash, we await the outcome of a trial to see whether or not he’s guilty.

    The Congressman in question was dealt with even before he was indicted by members of his own party:

    Stripped of committee membership

    After months of refusing to deal with the Jefferson scandal amid rising public outrage, on 2006 May 24 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi publicly requested Jefferson’s immediate resignation from the House Ways and Means Committee, but he declined to step down.[30] Although Mel Watt, then chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, declared the strong support of the caucus for Jefferson it has since been reported that two prominent members of the caucus—John Lewis (D-GA) and Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)—played major roles in the campaign to force Jefferson to step down.[31]

    On 2006 June 15, House Democrats voted to strip Jefferson of his committee assignment while the federal bribery investigation continued. The intra-party vote passed 99 to 58. Some have reported that the vote was passed as a result of Democrats who were determined to make an election-year point about ethics. The full House, which is the only group with the power actually to remove Jefferson, then stripped him of his seat on the committee on June 16 in a voice vote without debate. Jefferson had offered to step aside temporarily if the Democratic caucus established a rule concerning cases like his and if his seat went to Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA). This offer was rejected by House Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

    BTW, deal with the subject at hand, which is Kerik, instead of showing off your ignorance.

  10. Frank DiSalle says:
    May 27, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    DA: Did I make a mistake and mention a double standard?
    Did I forget that Mr Kerik has only been indicted?
    Did I forget that Ted Stevens was indicted and forced to step out of his race for the Senate and then exonerated?
    Did you not notice (a few lines below your WikiPedia reference), this :
    “the Jefferson Parish share of the district voted for Jefferson by a staggering 71% to 29%, clearly swinging the election in his favor.” [He won]
    and this:
    “Federal Judge T. S. Ellis III—on request from Jefferson’s attorney Robert P. Trout “for two to three additional weeks”—delayed the trial opening date by one week, to June 2 [2009]”

    Stick to the point? Yeah, well, the point was / is : An indictment is meaningless when the person indicted is a liberal; but when it’s a conservative or a Republican, they’re ordering the rope as they build the scaffold.

    Any questions?

  11. Tyro says:
    May 27, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    Frank DiSalle, you’re being dishonest and trying to go “look! over there!” Republicans love to bring of Rep. Jefferson because they were convinced that the Democrats were going to leap to his defense, and even when they didn’t, the right-wingers fantasized in their own warped minds, that they did.

    Josh Marshall (perhaps quoting from someone else) had the best quip about Kerik a few years ago: He was one more scandal away from being awarded the medal of freedom.

    False equivalence, DiSalle– republican stalwarts Giuliani and Bush were behind this crook all the way. Democrats threw out the trash. That’s because Republicans love crooks like Bernie Kerik and people like Bush and Giuliani are poor judges of character. He’s just another example of the mold and filth that was part of Bush’s inner circle. It was a standard pattern among those surrounding Bush. And to this day, slavish Bushlovers like DiSalle have never taken personal responsibility for their role they had in the crooks and crackpottery and criminality that surrounded the Bush administration. A little personal responsibility DiSalle– you supported and voted for and publically defended republican trash and still don’t understand the error of your ways. Your precious president supported putting a crook in charge of DHS, because Republicans are a bad judge of character and never managed to face up to that fact because they were too busy screaming “look over there!” when someone confronted them for being the
    ignorant trash they are.

  12. The Dark Avenger says:
    May 27, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    DA: Did I make a mistake and mention a double standard?
    Did I forget that Mr Kerik has only been indicted?

    No, the point is that Jefferson was dealt with BEFORE he was indicted. That kinda puts the crimp in “Liberals treated differently than conservatives” BS.

    Did I forget that Ted Stevens was indicted and forced to step out of his race for the Senate and then exonerated?

    No, you forgot that he ran for re-election while under indictment indicted and tried for alleged crimes and lost.

    From the Wiki on Stevens:

    On July 29, 2008, Stevens was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of failing to report gifts received from VECO Corporation and its CEO Bill Allen on his Senate financial disclosure forms, formally charged with violation of provisions of the Ethics in Government Act. Stevens pleaded not guilty and asserted his right to a speedy trial, which began on September 25 in Washington, DC, to have the opportunity to clear his name before the November election. However, on October 27, 2008, barely a week before the election, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts.[1][2] However, National Public Radio reported on April 1, 2009 that United States Attorney General Eric Holder, citing serious prosecutorial misconduct during the trial, decided to drop all charges against Stevens—an action that vacated his conviction.[3]

    Not quite the same as being exonerated.

    Did you not notice (a few lines below your WikiPedia reference), this :
    “the Jefferson Parish share of the district voted for Jefferson by a staggering 71% to 29%, clearly swinging the election in his favor.”

    Yes, he won in 2006, and the indictment came out after he had won that election. If you think the same result would’ve taken place had the indictment come before his election, then I’ve a bridge over the Tule River to show you.

    You apparently didn’t notice this, BTW:

    Following Jefferson’s reelection, Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi announced that Jefferson would not regain his seat on the Ways and Means Committee as long as he is not “cleared of wrongdoing in an ongoing federal corruption probe”.

    And that, too was before his indictment.

    Stick to the point? Yeah, well, the point was / is : An indictment is meaningless when the person indicted is a liberal

    Except Jefferson lost his chairmanship before he was indicted, and didn’t get it after he was re-elected, and was re-elected before the indictment.

    but when it’s a conservative or a Republican, they’re ordering the rope as they build the scaffold.

    You’re as accurate with this remark as with your version of political history, and that’s putting it kindly.

  13. Duros62 says:
    May 27, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    A little personal responsibility

    Oh, Republicans are all about personal responsibility. Just as long as it’s someone else’s.

    How ’bout that Mark Foley, huh? David Vitter?

  14. Bruce Henry says:
    May 27, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    Dark Avenger pretty much had his way with AO.

    Eeeeewwww. Sorry. Mental picture and all.

  15. The Dark Avenger says:
    May 28, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Nah, let’s just say I encountered a target-rich environment:

    1. A combat situation in which an attacker, normally equipped with a superior weapons system, is presented with a large number of highly desireable, poorly defended and high-value targets all at once, such a situation might be an attack helecopter with night vision capability finding a complete enemy brigade or divisional HQ convoy stalled at night on a narrow road with no place to go and no air defence

  16. PurpleGirl says:
    May 28, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Ah, the hubris of the man. Pity he is as stupid as he is, else he would have known that it’s arrogance that brings the ultimate downfall. He really should have read some of those ancient Greek myths and the plays… the gods love to play with the arrogant and then bring them down.

  17. The Dark Avenger says:
    May 28, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”