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ABC News reports that Richard Zabel, "the new chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan," has recused himself from the Bernard Madoff investigation "because his father represents one of the potential targets." Zabel's dad's client is Jeffrey Picower, who allegedly took $7.2 billion from Madoff's fraud. One lawyer said, "[The feds] have been dragging their feet and have not shown an appetite for going after others who may have helped Madoff devise the scheme."

In what must have seemed to Rudy Giuliani like a scene out of his nightmares, yesterday it was determined that there is officially a room where discussing 9/11 is off-limits—inside the courtroom of former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's corruption trial. During a pretrial meeting in White Plains federal court, the judge told Kerik's team, "This is not about 9/11." Kerik was indicted of trading city contracts for free apartment renovations to his Bronx apartment from a mob-linked contractor.