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Tully Mars · 10-21-2009, 03:45 AM

Bernard Kerik seems to have drawn the got to jail, go directly to jail card...

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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — An angry federal judge sent former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to jail Tuesday for sharing secret pretrial information with a "propagandist" who Kerik claimed was really his lawyer.

Kerik will be forced to await his upcoming corruption trial behind bars. Judge Stephen Robinson found probable cause to believe he was in contempt of court and revoked his $500,000 bail.

His lawyers said they did not know if Kerik, who has been New York City's correction commissioner as well as police commissioner, had ever spent a night behind bars.

The judge said he could not find another way to keep Kerik, 54, from trying to contaminate witnesses and the potential jury pool.

"Mr. Kerik, if left to his own devices, will obstruct justice," the judge said. "My fear is that he has a toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance, and I fear that combination leads him to believe that his ends justify his means."

"Mr. Kerik's not special," the judge said at another point. "He thinks he is."

Kerik, who wore a suit to court, took off his tie, emptied his pockets of wallet and keys, removed a ring and gave them to a lawyer, then walked off in the custody of two marshals. He did not speak.

This guy was once at the top of the LE food chain and nearly became the head of Department of Homeland Security. Wonder if he'll get convicted, if so prison life's gonna suck for him. Personally I think he's guilty as hell and deserved what ever he gets. He strikes me as a guy who thinks he's above the law and the rules don't apply to him. Known a few people likes this personally, didn't/don't like them.

Anyone else have thoughts or info they'd care to share?

uncle phil · 10-21-2009, 03:55 AM

i'm not surprised to see him surface in this way. i thought he was a crook back when the shrub was thinking about nominating him for the head of HS...

10-21-2009, 03:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	i'm not surprised to see him surface in this way. i thought he was a crook back when the shrub was thinking about nominating him for the head of HS... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.