Sat Mar 20 2010
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Just days before starting a triathlon of trials, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik appears to be opting for a shortcut.
A person familiar with the case said Wednesday that Kerik, who won praise nationwide for his steadiness after the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York, planned to enter a guilty plea today that would resolve three pending federal criminal trials.
The plea deal could send Kerik, who nearly became Homeland Security chief, to prison for about 21/2 years, the person told Associated Press.
Kerik, 54, originally pleaded not guilty. He pledged to fight the charges when he was indicted two years ago and he appeared determined until last month, when he was suddenly jailed for sharing secret pretrial information.
In the first trial, which had been scheduled to begin Monday in White Plains, Kerik was accused of accepting renovations to his co-op apartment in exchange for recommending a company that was looking to do business with New York City.
Kerik also faced a second trial in White Plains on various tax charges. The third case, in Washington, accused him of lying to the White House during his Homeland Security vetting.
Different emotions: Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance. For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs. John Allen Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10, seven years after he and his teen-age accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital for three weeks.
Test positive for H1N1: The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for swine flu, making it the first time the virus has been found in such hogs.
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