Bernie Kerik Testifies Against Contractors

[Valin]

Friends Of Ours:

 

10/16/12

 

Bernard Kerik, the former NYC police commissioner and one-time nominee to lead the U.S. Homeland Security Department, has been stewing in a federal prison for accepting free work on a home renovation, and yesterday the ex-top cop changed out of his prison jumpsuit into civilian clothes in order to testify in a Bronx courtroom at the perjury trial of former friends Frank and Peter DiTommaso as reported by Daniel Beekman for the Daily News:

 

The DiTommaso brothers are charged with lying to a 2006 grand jury investigating Kerik for improprieties dating to the late 1990s. The brothers, who owned a construction company that was under investigation for mafia ties, said they didn't pay for renovations to Kerik's Riverdale apartment in 1999. But the NYPD bigwig later admitted that they did.

 

Kerik "was deemed a 'reluctant witness' by prosecutors who needed a court order to compel him to testify," and the sad sack started weeping on the stand in recounting his disgraceful misdeeds as reported by Pervaiz Shallwani and Sean Gardiner for The Wall Street Journal.

 

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