NYT: Police Review Accounts Used in Kerik Years

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The Police Department is reviewing credit card accounts used in sensitive investigations in an effort to determine whether they were misused when Bernard B. Kerik was police commissioner, according to officials involved in the inquiry.

The exhaustive review, which is being conducted by a unit in the Internal Affairs Bureau that handles the department's most sensitive internal inquiries, has as yet uncovered no evidence of improprieties, according to one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry.

The review began shortly after Christmas, after weeks of news reports detailing accusations of financial improprieties and ethical lapses involving Mr. Kerik after the withdrawal of his nomination to be the secretary of homeland security.

The department undertook the review after learning from a New York Times reporter that a department official had raised questions about the use of the accounts, suggesting that some of the spending was suspect.

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