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Article: Connection to Kerik proves costly.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2006
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Byline: Anthony M. Destefano
Apr. 15--A former spokesman at the Department of Correction did nothing wrong by talking with his old boss Bernard Kerik in a wiretapped telephone call and is being unfairly tarnished by law enforcement probes involving Kerik, the former correction commission's lawyer said Friday. The attorney, Joseph Tacopina, acknowledged that Thomas Antenen, until this week chief spokesman for the correction department, was heard speaking in a tapped call with Kerik. Tacopina said Kerik's cell phone was tapped for a period of two months earlier this year as part of the investigations. Kerik was the correction and later police commissioner ...