Bernard Kerik
The biggest story in state law news this week takes place in the state of New York. Many were waiting anxiously to see what the state laws were going to decide in terms of the state law news story involving the former New York City Commissioner, Bernard Kerik. The state law news story originally revealed that former New York City Commissioner, Bernard Kerik, was being charged with several charges for violation of the state laws and the federal laws. Some of the charges that he has been charged with as a result of the violation of the federal and state laws are tax fraud, lying to the white house, unlawfully releasing pretrial information, and several other felonies. The state law news sources says that Kerik has been charged for eight felonies, total. Many have been waiting for the next set of state law news stories in order to determine what is going to be decided due to these allegations of these federal and state laws.
1. Well, the results are in for all those that were waiting in order to see what decision in terms of sentencing would be made for former New York Commissioner, Bernard Kerik’s violation of the state laws. For all those that have not been following the initial state law news stories surrounding the case, the initial state law news story states that after his year in the position as New York Commissioner, shortly thereafter, he had been charged with eight felonies. This also came after a time when Kerik was highly praised, along with Rudy Giuliani as to the way that he had handled the September 11th attack. By the year 2004, President Bush had nominated Kerik for the position as Secretary of Homeland Security. A week after the nomination, Kerik had withdrew, stating that he had employed an illegal immigrant as his nanny, this is the point at which a range of allegations begin to merge that stated violations of several federal and state laws.
2. The state law news circuit is stating that the sentencing that Bernard Kerik had received for the violation of the federal and state laws was four years in prison. The state law news circuit says that one of the last things that Kerik had said before questioning was for the court to release him as soon as possible back to his wife and two children. In addition, for his violation of the accused federal and state laws that Kerik plead guilty to, he was required to pay in the range of $200,000 of fines. Some of the major federal and state laws to which these fines were assessed were due to six years in back taxes. The range of prison time for violation of these federal and state laws fell within a period of 27 to 33 months, but Bernard Kerik was sentenced to 4 years in prison, and he is scheduled to turn himself in on May 17.