{"id":1166,"date":"2007-04-09T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:28:13","slug":"white-house-looked-past-alarms-on-kerik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/white-house-looked-past-alarms-on-kerik\/","title":{"rendered":"White House looked past alarms on Kerik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/kerik_hup1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/kerik_hup.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Giuliani, Gonzales pushed Department of Homeland Security bid forward<\/p>\n<p>By John Solomon and Peter Baker, washingtonpost.com<\/p>\n<p>When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. 11, 2001. But it did not take them long to compile an extensive dossier of damaging information about the would-be Cabinet officer.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"byLine\">They learned about questionable financial deals, an ethics violation, allegations of mismanagement and a top deputy prosecuted for corruption. Most disturbing, according to people close to the process, was Kerik&#8217;s friendship with a businessman who was linked to organized crime. The businessman had told federal authorities that Kerik received gifts, including $165,000 in apartment renovations, from a New Jersey family with alleged Mafia ties.<\/span><span id=\"byLine\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/18002772\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuliani, Gonzales pushed Department of Homeland Security bid forward By John Solomon and Peter Baker, washingtonpost.com When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. 11, 2001. 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