Kerik pleads guilty to accepting gifts in corruption probe (1 Viewer)

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I wonder if Kerick used this money to pay for his mistress' apartment?

Kerik pleads guilty to accepting gifts in corruption probe

By TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former police commissioner Bernard Kerik, whose rise from beat cop to nominee for Homeland Security head was derailed by ethics questions, dodged prison Friday in a plea bargain by admitting he took $165,000 in gifts from an allegedly mobbed-up New Jersey firm.

Kerik, at a 10-minute hearing in state Supreme Court in the Bronx, pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors under a deal that allows him to continue without interruption his new career as a security consultant in the Middle East.

Kerik acknowledged accepting $165,000 in renovations on his Bronx apartment from a company attempting to land city contracts - Interstate Industrial Corp., a business reputedly linked to organized crime. And he admitted failing to report a $28,000 loan from a real estate developer as required by city law.

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