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To: KLP who wrote (90742)	12/15/2004 1:38:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

Kerik The papers will leave you alone on your personal life until you reach a certain point in public life.

To: KLP who wrote (90742)	12/15/2004 1:49:16 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793782

One would think the NYT would have commented on Kerik before now Perhaps you would have preferred that they comment when he was posing with Rudy and George on the 9/11 site? Or when Bush tapped him to go to Iraq? Or when Bush nominated him for Homeland Security? You would have been yelling bloody murder at their bias in picking on the red team. <g>

To: KLP who wrote (90742)	12/15/2004 2:43:37 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

If you think the NY Times is being licentious over Kerik, you should see the NY Post (which, as you probably know, is right wing): BAD BERNIE'S LIVID MISTRESS: 'HE'S INSANE & MANIACAL' nypost.com They're probably banging on Kerik because he's so hubristic, not to mention careless, and cavalier: >> KERIK'S LAST-MINUTE SCRAMBLE TO FILE NANNY PAPERS By DEBORAH ORIN December 15, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Former NYPD top cop Bernard Kerik didn't file any paperwork or pay any taxes for his family's Mexican nanny until shortly before he was tapped to be President Bush's homeland-security chief, The Post has learned. A New Jersey business-registration form, which he had to file as her employer, was issued to Kerik on Nov. 17 — just over two weeks before Bush nominated him on Dec. 3, according to documents Kerik supplied to The Post. The form lists its effective date as Nov. 2. It was previously known that Kerik didn't file nanny forms until this fall — but not that he waited until just weeks before his nomination, when the rumor mill was heavily touting him as a possible homeland security chief. A Kerik friend said the delay was "a careless mistake" and denied that the form was hastily filed because Kerik felt he had a chance to get the job. The friend said the illegal nanny left the United States a few days before Kerik's Dec. 3 nomination. The friend denied that the nanny left the country to avoid embarrassing Kerik, saying she had purchased her plane tickets a month earlier. But that would suggest that Kerik knew the nanny was about to return to Mexico when he filed the tax papers. When Kerik filed the forms, he also paid the nanny's Social Security taxes dating back to last February when his family moved to New Jersey, but didn't pay any back taxes for the time they lived in New York, the friend added. Kerik withdrew last Friday, a week after he was nominated, touching off questions over his Nannygate problems, business dealings, gifts and allegations he had two affairs. Kerik didn't realize that he needed to file forms for the nanny until an acquaintance told him in September, his friend said. "He was told that in New Jersey you need to do this and he said, 'I never did that,' and it took him a month and a half to finally do it," the friend said. Click to learn more... He said Kerik filed a four-page application form including the nanny's name and the Social Security number that she gave him and assumed that she was legal when he got back the registration form from the state. * Channel 2 News reported last night that Kerik took over an apartment donated for use by Ground Zero workers, and converted the Battery Park City digs into a love nest for his affair with his book publisher, Judith Regan. Kerik rented the property from the Milstein family, which declined comment, the station said. nypost.com