Mr. Shaman
01-03-2005, 05:49 PM
"New York City's ex-police Commissioner Bernard Kerik under investigation by the city might be the subject of a FBI inquiry as well.
Sources told the New York Post the FBI is examining Kerik's relationship with organized crime-linked Wall Street securities trader Lawrence Ray and his $6.2 million profit from exercising stock options in Taser International, which sold stun guns to the Department of Homeland Security. (http://www.newswatch50.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=7D1F8D70-4E3A-413F-9E14-5BEAD8BE996D)
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And, Rudy's not doin' a whole lot better!! (http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/nyc-mike0103,0,998322.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-politics)
"It is a story that has developed in increments, without photo-ops, since 2002. Slowly. Almost imperceptibly.
Now a pattern is emerging.
The Department of Investigation's ongoing review of ex-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's past actions marks only the latest in a clear series of Giuliani-era fiascoes and scandals that have bloomed retroactively during the Bloomberg years.
Three years into his term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg remains reluctant to launch an open and potentially destructive feud with his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani by condemning or even noting this cluster of cases.
But even without linking them overtly, the names of the accused, the suspected and the dismissed have piled up on Bloomberg's watch. The names include Roberts, Russi, Gelormino, Carbonetti, Kerik, Harding, Serra and Patrick -- all once men of stature and influence in Giuliani circles.
Working with federal officials, Hearn's office early on built an embezzlement case, still pending, against Russell Harding using documents that the prior administration at first denied existed. A patronage appointee of Giuliani, Harding allegedly used the resources of the Housing Development Corp., where he was president, to fund a lavish lifestyle. Last summer Giuliani's former housing commissioner and hospital system chairman, Richard Roberts, pleaded guilty in the same case.
The DOI also took action that led to a perjury plea by Giuliani's friend Louis Carbonetti, who ran a Business Improvement District in Brooklyn. City sources say his BID post was arranged through Giuliani's office. It was in that role that Carbonetti, the father of current Giuliani aide Anthony Carbonetti, ran afoul of the law involving a contractor with whom the BID dealt."
Sources told the New York Post the FBI is examining Kerik's relationship with organized crime-linked Wall Street securities trader Lawrence Ray and his $6.2 million profit from exercising stock options in Taser International, which sold stun guns to the Department of Homeland Security. (http://www.newswatch50.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=7D1F8D70-4E3A-413F-9E14-5BEAD8BE996D)
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And, Rudy's not doin' a whole lot better!! (http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/nyc-mike0103,0,998322.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-politics)
"It is a story that has developed in increments, without photo-ops, since 2002. Slowly. Almost imperceptibly.
Now a pattern is emerging.
The Department of Investigation's ongoing review of ex-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's past actions marks only the latest in a clear series of Giuliani-era fiascoes and scandals that have bloomed retroactively during the Bloomberg years.
Three years into his term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg remains reluctant to launch an open and potentially destructive feud with his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani by condemning or even noting this cluster of cases.
But even without linking them overtly, the names of the accused, the suspected and the dismissed have piled up on Bloomberg's watch. The names include Roberts, Russi, Gelormino, Carbonetti, Kerik, Harding, Serra and Patrick -- all once men of stature and influence in Giuliani circles.
Working with federal officials, Hearn's office early on built an embezzlement case, still pending, against Russell Harding using documents that the prior administration at first denied existed. A patronage appointee of Giuliani, Harding allegedly used the resources of the Housing Development Corp., where he was president, to fund a lavish lifestyle. Last summer Giuliani's former housing commissioner and hospital system chairman, Richard Roberts, pleaded guilty in the same case.
The DOI also took action that led to a perjury plea by Giuliani's friend Louis Carbonetti, who ran a Business Improvement District in Brooklyn. City sources say his BID post was arranged through Giuliani's office. It was in that role that Carbonetti, the father of current Giuliani aide Anthony Carbonetti, ran afoul of the law involving a contractor with whom the BID dealt."