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Article: A DEFIANT KERIK VOWS TO BATTLE U.S. INDICTMENT - New York Times
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- November 10, 2007
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A defiant Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner, vowed yesterday to fight a 16-count federal indictment, setting the stage for legal proceedings that could cast a shadow over the presidential campaign of his friend and one-time mentor, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, deep into the 2008 election season. The new felony charges in some ways echo the case brought against Mr. Kerik last year by state prosecutors, who allowed him to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of accepting costly renovations to his Bronx apartment and failing to disclose a $28,000 loan to help buy it.At the heart of that case were allegations that a construction company with suspected ties to ...