Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty this morning to making false statements on his application for Homeland Security Secretary and will admit to tax fraud, according to the Associated Press.
The AP also reports that Kerik will admit to tax fraud and accept a plea deal bargain of 27 to 33 months in prison.
Kerik was facing three separate federal trials, including a trial that was set to get underway Monday.
After a judge revoked his bail for sharing secret pretrial information, Kerik spent more than a week in a psychiatric unit of the Westchester County jail.
He was accused of accepting renovations to his co-op from a contractor looking to do business with the city.
Had Kerik been convicted for his eight corruption and fraud charges, he would have faced up to 140 years in prison.
(Source: NY1 / AP)
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I’m happy he got a light sentence. He woesnt a bad guy in general and he did allot of good things.
He was still a GREAT PC…. Everyone makes mistakes, his was highly publicized because of who he was….
You would think that this is the worst criminal we have, and is awaiting no less then one hundred and forty years in jail. Equivalent to Anthony Sowell who has murdered a dozen people or so. Something is terribly wrong with our system. Is this a Purim shpiel that he is charged with getting 140 years and actually gets 2 years? Why such a big discrepancy between 140 years, and a seventieth of it, which is 2 years? Does it mean that if the Judge and jury are stacked against the defendant then he gets 140 years, but id the Judge and jury love the defendant he goes Scott free, or no more then 2 years? What a system we have?
The 140 years is theoretically possible, but only theoretically – it assumes the maximum possible sentence on each and every count charged, with each term served consecutively, not concurrently. It amounts to a “never happen” scenario.
#4, Unless someone wants it to happen. Tolu bidei acheirim (tarteh mashmeh).