More dirt on Kerik

The dirt just keeps coming out on that slime ball Kerik. The administration obviously did not do any kind of vetting at all. Even they couldn't think this guy could get through Senate confirmation.

As Bill in DC says:
"The nanny issue was a smokescreen. The public hears about the nanny
issue and says to itself, "What a shaem! It's unfair that a good
candidate should be denied a cabinet position just because they may have hired
an illegal alien to watch their kids and failed to pay FICA." The
nanny issue allowed the regime to get rid of Kerik without letting the real
questions of corruption come into public scrutiny."

The New York Times Has the scoop on Kerik's mob connections.

While serving as New York City correction commissioner in the late 1990's, Bernard B. Kerik spoke to the city's Trade Waste Commission on behalf of a close friend who was helping a company suspected of mob connections try to get a license from the city, according to a former commission executive.

The conversation was part of a web of relationships Mr. Kerik developed with officials of a New Jersey construction company long suspected by New York authorities of connections to organized crime. The company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, hired Mr. Kerik's close friend Lawrence Ray, the best man at Mr. Kerik's wedding, to help with its licensing problems. Mr. Ray said yesterday that he gave Mr. Kerik more than $7,000 in cash and other gifts while Mr. Kerik was commissioner of correction and the police. The gifts were first reported in The Daily News yesterday.

Of course who better to work for the Bush crime family than a mobster.