Word: jailings
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...Security before his checkered past caught up with him. On Thursday, Nov. 5, the gruff, muscle-bound 54-year-old pleaded guilty to tax fraud, making false statements and other felonies in a federal courthouse in suburban New York. The man who once oversaw the nation's largest municipal jail system - and whose name once adorned a New York correctional center - now faces more than two years behind bars. (Read "Rudy Giuliani's Kerik Problem...
...Capitalizing on a relationship with a New Jersey sheriff, became warden of the Passaic County, New Jersey, jail at age 30 - the youngest warden in county history. He quit the post in July 1986 to join the New York Police Department. He worked as an undercover drug officer, donning a long ponytail and earring, and earned numerous awards for his police work, including the department's Medal of Valor...
...admitted accepting $165,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment from a company accused of having ties to organized crime that sought city business. He paid $221,000 in fines, and under orders from Mayor Mike Bloomberg, his name was removed from the Bernard B. Kerik Complex, a Manhattan jail, which reverted to its original name, the Manhattan Detention Complex...
...bail was revoked and Kerik was sent to jail on Oct. 20 by an angry federal judge who accused him of leaking legal information to an outside attorney, who later provided that information to the Washington Times, seeking favorable coverage (the newspaper did not print the material). Kerik became Inmate No. 210717 at the Westchester County jail in Valhalla...
...streets has passed, with both sides declaring victory, where does the continuing post-election crisis in Iran stand? President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a defiant popular movement, whose leaders and participants refuse to back down, even as many of its members continue to be imprisoned and sentenced with heavy jail terms. He has also been doggedly attacked by conservative members of the Iranian parliament on both domestic policy and the formerly sacrosanct issue of negotiations with the West on Iran's production of nuclear energy. On Oct. 27, the head of the Parliamentary Energy Committee stated that Russia, which has positioned...