Former police chief of New York was sentenced to 4 years in jail

The former head of the New York Police Bernard Kerik (Bernard Kerik) was sentenced on Thursday, February 18, to four years imprisonment for fraud of the White House, tax violations and other crimes, transmits Associated Press.
Kerik made a deal with justice and has pleaded guilty to all eight counts in November 2009, thereby avoiding the most severe sentence – the charges against 54-year-old ex-police officer charged included a prison term of up to 61 years. Given confessions Kerik, he threatened to not more than three years’ imprisonment.

However, the head of the process, Judge Stephen Robinson (Stephen Robinson) felt that Kerik deserves more punishment, given the position which he occupied in society, being the chief of police in major U.S. cities.

On leaving the courtroom, Bernard Kerik told the assembled reporters that he regretted his act. “I apologize to Americans for the crimes my mistakes, for which I was punished,” – he said. Earlier, even before the sentencing, Kerik asked the court to “allow him to return to his wife and two young daughters as soon as possible.”

In addition to the prison term, the court ordered Kerik to pay 188 thousand dollars in damages, as well as to pay all the tax arrears accumulated in his six years.

Bernard Kerik headed the New York Police Department from 2000 to 2001, when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was. Kerik became widely known after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the media gave a positive assessment of his work in an emergency. In 2004, President George W. Bush nominated Kerik for the post of minister of national security, but the appointment fell through, in 2007, Kerik was suspected of tax evasion and deception of the authorities, and in 2009 he was taken into custody.