New York Adult Entertainment: US Asks Kerik’s Judge to Send a Stern Message
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who launched Mr. Kerik’s career by naming him police commissioner and recommended him as the Bush administration’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, did not submit a letter on his behalf.
The defense memo described a strikingly different man from the unscrupulous figure outlined by prosecutors. Mr. Kerik’s lawyers praised his “extraordinary public service,” and said his legal troubles had left him “tormented by daily guilt and remorse” and “plagued by enormous debt and mounting legal fees.”
Hector J. Santiago, a retired police detective who worked with Mr. Kerik in the late 1980s, wrote that Mr. Kerik had taught him “discipline, honor and integrity,” and was “one of the toughest guys on the team, yet he always treated people with compassion and respect.”
While the defense memo focused on Mr. Kerik’s dramatic biography — he has written that his mother was a prostitute who abandoned him — the prosecutors’ memo reviews in detail Mr. Kerik’s crimes.