Major NY Times Exposé of Giuliani-Kerik-Mob Corruption! "they kissed his cheek"

[Dems Will Win]

This is devastating.

Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs
By MICHAEL POWELL
This article was reported by Russ Buettner, Michael Powell and William K. Rashbaum and was written by Mr. Powell.

...

Mr. Kerik followed Mr. Giuliani downstairs to a dimly lighted room. There waited Mr. Giuliani’s boyhood chum Peter J. Powers, who was first deputy mayor, and other aides. One by one, they pulled Mr. Kerik close and kissed his cheek.

“I wonder if he noticed how much becoming part of his team resembled becoming part of a mafia family,” Mr. Kerik wrote. “I was being made.”

...

One night in July 1999, he sat in Walker’s, a bar in downtown Manhattan, defending Interstate to Raymond V. Casey, a cousin of Mayor Giuliani who was chief of enforcement for the city commission that was reviewing Interstate’s license application. Later that year Mr. Kerik telephoned an assistant commissioner at the Department of Investigation to say that Interstate’s owners, as far as he knew, were clean of mob taint, according to a person familiar with her account.

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Three weeks later, Mr. Kerik sat down for a nearly two-hour interview with top officials at the Department of Investigation. He talked about his relationship with Mr. Ray and the DiTommasos, about the hiring of his brother and the meeting at Walker’s.

He neglected to mention a key fact: Interstate was paying for $165,000 worth of renovations on his new apartment in the Bronx.

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Less than two years later, though, Mr. Giuliani would find himself being grilled about that choice. On April 20, 2006, before a state grand jury, a prosecutor in the Bronx district attorney’s office peppered Mr. Giuliani, one of the most powerful prosecutors in the late 20th century, about his apparent lack of memory.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/us/politics/03kerik.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Recommend if you want the truth out on Giuliani...

[Blackhatjack]

1. And the downfall of Rudy Giuliani begins..... so much dirt he cannot hide

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. he could drop out of race?

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Damn straight I'll recommend!

I'll also recommend the following website and its damning videos of Mayor Nine Eleveniani.

http://therealrudy.org/radios

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. You need to edit your citations down to four paragraphs

This is a copyright violation and you are putting this board at risk.

[Dems Will Win]

7. Shortened the quote

[Chovexani]

4. As much as people talk about the GOP throwing dirt at Clinton

I don't think people outside NY realize just how much genuine dirt there is on Mussolini-on-the-Hudson. I'm talking serious stuff beyond even just the personal shenanigans.

[NYC]

9. That was Hitler on the Hudson & Mussolini in Manhattan.

[Chovexani]

18. I was always partial to "Little Shitface"

But I don't think that ever caught on outside my house. :P

[NYC]

19. Maybe you should ask around.

It may be more popular than you think.

[seemslikeadream]

5. ....

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My letter to Sen. Leahy: Concerning Mukasey's nomination, and Mukasey's son Marc
Posted by MagickMuffin on Thu Nov-01-07 04:32 PM

I started out calling everyone of the Judiciary Committee. Leahy's office was the last one I called and the person I spoke with asked me to send them an email. Below is the email I sent. This is very important information and I have not heard anything about this, not in the news, not on DU, nowhere. I could have missed it being posted here, but if I did then oops. This info needs to get out there, it needs to have the spotlight shined on it to keep this nominee just that a nominee.


Dear Honorable Sen. Leahy,

Please consider this information before confirming Michael Mukasey as the United States Attorney General. I have called everyone on the Senate Judiciary committee (Dems only of course) to get this info out there. I haven't heard much about it anywhere else. While I know that Water-boarding is a serious concern, I find this info just as concerning.

Marc Mukasey, the son of Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey, has been tasked by Rudy Giuliani to “to keep an eye on” former NYPD police commissioner Bernard Kerik’s criminal investigation.

Earlier this month, media reports said that federal prosecutors were prepared to file charges against Kerik “that will likely include allegations of bribery, tax fraud and obstruction of justice.” Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, pleaded guilty last year to two misdemeanor charges of taking payments from the same company that is alleged to have bribed him.

More @ link

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/mukasey-son-giuliani /



Can you imagine someone blocking witnesses from testifying to protect another criminal? I mean come on. When will it ever end?



This is what concerns me the most:

Mr. Mukasey's clients frequently retain him for his trial skills. He has tried numerous criminal cases involving allegations of securities fraud, investment advisory fraud, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, money laundering, RICO and murder. He has also practiced extensively before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Recently, Mr. Mukasey has been successful in persuading Department of Justice prosecutors to close an antitrust investigation against a major corporation without the filing of charges, and to drop securities fraud and mail fraud investigations of his business clients.



Do we really need more cronyism at the DOJ???

Hasn't the DOJ suffered enough at the hands of the Bush regime???

I can just see it now Marc spending so much time at the DOJ and getting Daddy to block investigations concerning his clients.

The Department of Justice is in shambles because of the Bush regime politicizing it.



Senator Leahy you have the power to block his confirmation. Please help put this country back on the right track. This has got to stop. We need real leadership at the DOJ. We don't need more of the cronyism that has wrecked our great nation. You know as well as I and the rest of us non sleepers that our country is in dire straights and we need your leadership to help set the country back on the right track, especially within the DOJ.



Thank you for your service and thank you for your time.

Best Regards,


If you DUers think it is worthy of merit then help spread the word far and wide.

[MagickMuffin]

13. Thx Seemslikeadream for finding the info worthy and spreading it.....

:hi:

I really do find it appalling that this kind of "leadership" is acceptable. I am sooooo tired of it all. I sent this email to Feinstein and Schumer as well. I can't believe they are going to confirm Daddy, and that they think Torture is alright by them. It really is disgusting.

What has happened to our country?

Why is this considered the norm now?

One thing that really pisses me off is Tweety. He continues to harp about the Clintons withholding some of their files.
Yet, he never mentions anything about Rudy Fruity Tooty 9-11 Ghouliani. Do you think Tweety is a Rudy MAN? It wouldn't surprise me.

[seemslikeadream]

16. Homeland Security nominee - criminal **Bernard Kerik**

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2032747

[Swamp Rat]

6. Here ya go:

:D

[LearnedHand]

8. Dems Will Win ...

... please remember that that DU copyright rules require that you limit excerpts of copyrighted material to four paragraphs and include a link to the original source. Thanks.

[Dems Will Win]

10. Shortened the quote again

[speedoo]

11. K&R, and bookmarked. nt

[AuntPatsy]

12. More proof that he will indeed be the nominee for the repubs.

[Dems Will Win]

14. The Mafia Party

[Dems Will Win]

15. kick

[williesgirl]

17. One presidential mafia family, 2 generations, is more than enough. rec'd

[BornagainDUer]

20. .....whereupon he cracked a vertical smile"

:evilgrin:

[Dems Will Win]

22. kick

[Gabi Hayes]

23. b