Giuliani says "I don't remember" when asked about 00 briefings on Kerik's Corruption!

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Fri Mar-30-07 08:54 AM
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Giuliani says "I don't remember" when asked about 00 briefings on Kerik's Corruption!

Edited on Fri Mar-30-07 09:21 AM by Dems Will Win

"GEE! I DON'T -- I DON'T -- I DON'T REMEMBER!"

Giuliani will soon be unelectable. What a dope. THis is why he never officially entered the race, because he knew he gave this testimony in April 2006!

Testimony by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in ’00

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according to court records.

Mr. Giuliani, testifying last year under oath before a Bronx grand jury investigating Mr. Kerik, said he had no memory of the briefing, but he did not dispute that it had taken place, according to a transcript of his testimony.

Mr. Giuliani’s testimony amounts to a significantly new version of what information was probably before him in the summer of 2000 as he was debating Mr. Kerik’s appointment as the city’s top law enforcement officer. Mr. Giuliani had previously said that he had never been told of Mr. Kerik’s entanglement with the company before promoting him to the police job or later supporting his failed bid to be the nation’s homeland security secretary.

In his testimony, given in April 2006, Mr. Giuliani indicated that he must have simply forgotten that he had been briefed on one or more occasions as part of the background investigation of Mr. Kerik before his appointment to the police post.

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For Mr. Giuliani, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president and who has done well in early polls, his history with Mr. Kerik looms as a likely issue in the campaign. His own aides have anticipated that questions are likely to arise about Mr. Giuliani’s judgment in, among other things, promoting Mr. Kerik for one of the country’s most important national security posts.

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Mr. Kerik even told the investigators that his friend Mr. Ray had recently been indicted on federal criminal charges, along with Edward Garafola, a reputed Gambino soldier, the brother-in-law of Salvatore Gravano, the former underboss known as Sammy the Bull.

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At one point, a senior Bronx prosecutor, Stephen R. Bookin, asked Mr. Giuliani, “As you sit here today, your testimony is, and correct me if I am wrong, that you don’t recall ever being told that a close friend of your correction commissioner had been indicted in a federal case?”

Mr. Giuliani responded: “I don’t recall that until 2004. I can’t tell you that it wasn’t, but I don’t — I don’t — I don’t remember.”

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Mr. Kerik also assured him, Mr. Giuliani testified, that there was no reason for concern when questions later arose as to whether Interstate had paid for the renovations to his apartment.

“He told me that Interstate didn’t do the work, that another company had done it legitimately, that he had the checks to show he paid for it,” Mr. Giuliani said.

Mr. Giuliani testified that he took Mr. Kerik’s word for it and did not ask to see the canceled checks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/us/politics/30rudy.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Why do the Republicans have the elephant as their icon if they never can remember anything corrupt that they did? Seems to me the Dodo would be a better mascot!

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