Kerik's 'Dept. of Corruption'

[DoYouEverWonder]

December 26, 2004 -- A whistleblowing former deputy warden has sent the U.S. Justice Department a 178-page report slamming Bernie Kerik for turning the city Department of Correction into "the Department of Corruption" over the 51/2-year period he worked there.

Terrence Skinner, 43, once a top correction cop who was promoted by Kerik and got plum assignments, said he wrote the report and delivered it to the feds last week to set the record straight on his former boss ? and because Kerik was "positioning himself for some future governmental position."

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Skinner's report, delivered to Attorney General John Ashcroft's office in Washington on Thursday, alleges:

* Kerik ordered correction officers to strip-search suspects held on misdemeanor charges ? a violation of a federal court order that led to a $50 million fine against the city.

A federal judge had earlier banned such searches, but Kerik ? then deputy commissioner ? told his men to do them anyway, Skinner claims.

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* That more than $800,000 is still missing from the scandal-scarred Correction Foundation, a little-known outfit headed by Kerik and funded with $1 million in rebates on cigarettes the city bought for Rikers Island inmates from tobacco firms.


http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/37179.htm

[PartyPooper]

1. Surprised?

I'm not.

:eyes:

[Pam-Moby]

6. It could not have happened to a better guy!!

:toast:

[Carl Brennan]

2. Good to see "Skinner" has the cajones

to do something. That guy sure wears alot of hats. :bounce:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. This guy didn't make many friends, did he.

Prediction: He does time.

Bernie's Tae Kwon Do better be really, really good, if he does time. He might as well wear a sign the says "Shank Me" if he goes in.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Not when you treat your friends like Bernie treated this guy

The pal who busted Bernie

December 26, 2004


With his nominationto homeland security czar in tatters, Bernard Kerik recently uttered a few sentences that the best man from his wedding desperately wanted to hear three years ago.

"During my friendship with Mr. Ray, we were extremely close," Kerik said, referring to Lawrence Ray. "I never knew him to be associated with anyone that was involved in organized crime or criminal activity."

Ray, 45, believes those words could have saved him from pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.

Now Ray will likely emerge as a key figure in the various investigations of Kerik.

But Ray did not come forward willingly.

He agreed to speak on the record only after President Bush nominated Kerik to the highly sensitive homeland security job.

"I felt, with everything I have learned, that he would disgrace the country and the office of the President," Ray said.


http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/265556p-227266c.html

[Cooley Hurd]

13. "He would disgrace the country and the office of the President..."

Sorry, we're already at rock-bottom...

[NYC]

4. Poor judgment.

Giuliani, Alberto Gonzales, George Bush.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. And what about our sub-mediocre US Senators....

Charles Clinton and Hillary Schumer ? They thought Kerik was just great when nominated and, as far as I know, have not admitted error.

[NYC]

8. I guess they'll just stay quiet.

You said it: sub-mediocre.

I'm waiting for improvement. I think that's like waiting for Godot.

[sandnsea]

11. Hillary did

Said she didn't know the extent of Kerik's wrongdoings, or something to that affect. I still think it's bizarre that Kerik, of all people, gets slaughtered in the media. He's small potatoes compared to Gonzales and the other sleazebags in the White House. Is it so they can point to Kerik for the next 4 years and say "yes we are hard on the Bushies"? I don't trust this story, something stinks about it, it's about something much bigger than Kerik.

[ally_sc]

15. you know...i am glad i read this thread

i think you may be correct. it is about something bigger, but what? could st guliani have anything to do with this...it is probably about 9-11. there is so much questionable theories about 9-11 and i know they will be proven. i know it becuase some of it is already coming to light.

[Elidor]

9. It's nice to see the egg on Bush's face turn radioactive

And burn him badly. What a maroon!

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[Forever Free]

12. Makes you wish that good ol' Bernie did go through the nominating process

Would have made Bush and his conservative lackeys look all the more incompetent and stupid. If that were even possible anymore.

[Sara Beverley]

14. Kerik, a true Republican from the inside out the gift that keeps on giving

AND Bush knew and his inner circle knew all about this and they STILL tried to slip him in as Head of Homeland Security.

If they knew this and still did what they did, what else did they know that they let happen anyway? :tinfoilhat:

[0007]

16. Kind of sounds like a high class protection racket Kerik & Giuliani

were operating and endorsed by John Ashcroft.

The New York Post is going straight for the jugular, wonder what set them off?

[HockeyMom]

17. NY Post

The NY Post is Murdoch/Faux News. Cannot IMAGINE them blasting any "good" Republicans.

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. I think Kerik screwed a good friend of Murdocks

in more ways than one.

[0007]

19. Does it look like Kerik is gonna do time?

[blm]

20. Kerik is a typical Republican. Look into ANY of their REAL dealings and

you'll find ASTOUNDING levels of corruption.

Look what Bush got away with in his Harken deals...the focker actually made tons of dough from the Bin Laden's dirty BCCI money laundering rackets.

Where is the media scrutiny of Bush and his buddy, James Bath, and their dealings with dirty terrorist financiers?

[snippy]

21. Just more evidence for why Bush said "Bernie" is "supremely qualified."

Kerik is the quintessential Bush republican when it comes to integrity but he has failed to be truly successful in the Bush republican party because he lacked the guile to maintain any deniability of his personal corruption. A true Bush republican would have created enough cut out men and smoke screens to make his personal corruption much more difficult to pin down.

[manly]

22. kerik the lesser

Kerik is just a sacrifice, a mere distraction, doesn't mean a thing except that bush's judgement is shown yet again to be terrible. But what do you expect from a morron like that?

[Disturbed]

25. Shrub the Teflon Prez.

It seems that this was a set up to knock Mr. G. out of the Prez. box.

Shrub cannot be touched with anything because his cult ignore any negatives. The Rethugs go along with everything even though they feign protest on some issues.

[NorthernSpy]

23. this Kerik sounds kind of sociopathic

No wonder Bush "liked him immediately", as all that initially glowing press informed us.

[brentspeak]

24. Democrats need to remind public about Giuliani's connection w/ this guy

And remind, remind, remind them. For the next four years.