Bernard Kerik Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik has been sentenced to four years in federal prison. The sentence is significantly longer than what Kerik had hoped for when pleading guilty to lying on his application to be the director of Homeland Security, lying to the feds, tax fraud, and accepting $250,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment, provided by a company accused of having mob ties.

The disgraced NYPD commissioner apologized and implored Judge Robinson to "allow me to return to my wife and two little girls as soon as possible." But Robinson was unmoved, and said, "The fact that Mr. Kerik would use that event (9/11) for personal gain and aggrandizement is a dark place in the soul for me."

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