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Bernie Kerik Boo Hoos About Old Lawyer, Taxes

2008_09_kerik2.jpgLawyers for Bernard Kerik, the disgraced and indicted former NYPD commissioner, demand that feds explain how they got his former lawyer to rat him out. The Post reports a "sweeping, pre-trial motion" says that Joseph Tacopina told the governments things Kerik told him "in confidence." However, Tacopina claims nothing he told the feds was in client-lawyer protected conversation. Kerik also complained that he's being targeted for not paying taxes on his nanny while other high-profile people were accused of the same thing and never paid up. And regarding charges related to "making false statements," Kerik's lawyers say the government's questions--when being vetted for the Homeland Security top spot--were too vague, so not telling them about his links with mob isn't really lying.

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  • The Man Bat

    Whenever I see Kerik's smarmy mug, for some reason I am reminded of that photo of Mussolini hanging upside down.



    Funny that.

  • megs

    There should be a place where people like him could be sent, where they couldn't leave, until they paid their debt to society.



    Oh. Nevermind.

  • The Man Bat

    Whenever I see Kerik's smarmy mug, for some reason I am reminded of that photo of Mussolini hanging upside down.



    Funny that.

  • Pizza_Time

    When you're a piece of shit...

    if the stink fits wear it.

  • Future Taliban

    Boo-hoo. Amerikas top nazi complaining about being "singled-out" as a victim by the gestapo.



    I feel for him.



    NOT.

  • Tgirl

    another one like Rangel who should have known better



    "targetted" and "framed" are code words for "guilty as hell"

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