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Article: Another Embarrassment for Kerik
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- November 8, 2007
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He was a former undercover police officer with a bodybuilder's physique and a knack for charming people in high places such as Rudy Giuliani and even President Bush. But since his meteoric rise, Bernard Kerik has turned radioactive.
In the past three years, a string of revelations about Kerik's personal and professional improprieties have embarrassed his supporters and fueled criminal prosecutions _ including an investigation that could result in an indictment on tax evasion and corruption charges.
Federal prosecutors and Kerik's attorney, Kenneth Breen, declined to comment Thursday on secret grand jury proceedings in White Plains, N.Y., where the former police commissioner ...