Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in free renovations are no accident.
Mr. Kerik himself contradicted that testimony a few months later, when he pleaded guilty of receiving $165,000 worth of free renovations from "the Interstate companies or a subsidiary".
Mr. Kerik himself contradicted that testimony a few months later, when he pleaded guilty to receiving $165,000 in free renovations from "the Interstate companies or a subsidiary".
Later that year, Mr. Kerik contradicted the brothers' testimony when he pleaded guilty to receiving $165,000 in free renovations from "the Interstate companies or a subsidiary".
He was one of the state officials and contractors who provided free renovations or gifts at the governor's private cottage in Litchfield.
Mr. Kerik pleaded guilty last summer to improperly allowing the company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, or its subsidiaries, to do $165,000 worth of free renovations on his Bronx apartment in late 1999 and 2000.
Tunxis Management -- one of the companies in the Tommasso Group, which provided free renovations at Mr. Rowland's private cottage in Litchfield -- recently gave up a major state contract rather than submit one of Mr. Blumenthal's affidavits.
While it was never alleged that Stevens was bribed by Allen, the free renovations and furniture that were never disclosed on the public record imply more scurrilous doings – and raise a lot of questions.
In an interview with The Associated Press in New Hampshire, Mr. Giuliani said that he had erred in not thoroughly vetting Mr. Kerik, who is now under a federal investigation for accepting free renovations while he was working for Mr. Giuliani from a construction firm suspected of having links to organized crime.
ABC has a series called "Extreme Home Makeover," about a lucky family getting free home renovation.
