Ex-NYPD Boss-Turned-Trump Ally Bernie Kerik Wants Immunity to Testify

[Kennah]

Source: Daily Beast

Bernie Kerik, the former commissioner of the NYPD who was identified as a likely unindicted co-conspirator in Donald Trump’s Georgia indictment, said Monday he’ll refuse to testify in trials for Trump and his allies without a written assurance of immunity from prosecutors. Kerik was subpoenaed to testify in the first trial related to a sweeping indictment filed against Trump and 18 others—this one involving former Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell—but indicated through his lawyer, Tim Parlatore, that he’ll invoke his fifth amendment right to silence unless prosecutors cut him a deal. “No competent criminal attorney would allow Mr. Kerik to testify absent a grant of immunity,” Parlatore wrote in a fiery letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday, CNN reported. It’s unclear what exactly Kerik did to land him on a list of co-conspirators, but Trump and a number of his allies face charges for their alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Trump’s favor.



Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/alleged-trump-co-conspirator-bernie-kerik-will-refuse-to-testify-without-immunity

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Keep lining them up. Plenty of room at the probation office.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Thank You My Friend

Bernie Kerik wants immunity. The conservative I fucking hate freedom and democracy until my hate bites me in the ass rolls on.

[Deuxcents]

2. Who is he to demand anything?

These magas have a very screwed up belief system

[ancianita]

3. Right. Andrew Weissman says Willis doesn't need him anyway, and his lawyer knows it.

She's got enough evidence to convict him and Sidney Powell and whoever else.

[Kennah]

5. Bernie is pleading, but it's not going the way he thought it would

[former9thward]

6. BS

If Willis didn't need him, she would not be asking him.

[ancianita]

7. How do you know.

[former9thward]

9. How do you know?

Do you think prosecutors just have witnesses for the fun of it?

[ancianita]

12. You said: "If Willis didn't need him, she would not be asking him."

She's not asking.

Ignoring your "BS" about what I think, I'll tell you how I know and why Weissman is right.

1. She made Kerik an un-indicted co-conspirator because she's got evidence.

2. Bernie Kerik... identified as a likely unindicted co-conspirator in Donald Trump’s Georgia indictment, said Monday he’ll refuse to testify in trials for Trump and his allies without a written assurance of immunity from prosecutors. Kerik was subpoenaed to testify....

A subpoena isn't an "ask." If he refuses to testify unless he gets immunity, she'll an indict him. Kerik emailed Rudy & Meadows -- both defendants in the GA RICO case -- conceding they didn’t have any evidence of voter fraud & they needed to focus on the fraudulent elector scheme.

3. Knowing she got receipts, he's the one asking for immunity, but whether he gets it or not, he'll be in trouble for refusing to testify, or even if he does and takes the 5th on the stand.

His lawyer, Parlatore, had to go on tv to claim that if Willis such a good prosecutor, she should give his client immunity, which is the tell that he knows his client is in trouble. His tv lawyering is also connected to the fact that he's paid by Trump's Save America SuperPAC.

[former9thward]

22. If she had the evidence to indict, she would have.

And he will not be trouble if he takes the 5th. That is his legal right.

[ancianita]

23. That's not how "if" works with prosecutors in a RICO case.

Be patient. You'll see. Kerik won't be a snag in Willis winning this case.

[former9thward]

4. The prosecutor wants him to testify.

Of course he would demand immunity. Why wouldn't he? No defense attorney would allow him to testify without it. THAT would be a "very screwed up belief system."

[Mopar151]

8. Worship of the devil's own, Roy L Cohn.

It's a cult worse than Manson!

[cstanleytech]

17. "Who is he to demand anything?" A person.......not much of one though.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Could be that he's afraid,

scared of the prospect of sharing prison space with people he arrested back in the day.



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[Mr.Bill]

11. He's already served time in prison.

Generally, they don't put law enforcement people in the general population in prisons.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

13. Karma can be a bitch

[LudwigPastorius]

14. That's his right not to answer certain questions, but...

he doesn't have the right to skip testifying altogether.

If he gets up there and clams up, Prosecutor Willis should change his "unindicted" co-conspirator status and get some answers from him in his very own trial.

[cstanleytech]

18. Oh, it is even worse because by claiming the 5th a jury might think he has something to hide

which can be even worse.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

20. Precisely. The so far not indicted coconspirator will quickly become indicted conspirator.

The power of justice is immense…do the crime, do the time!…isn’t what the former disgraced cop would have said before he became one?

[Mz Pip]

15. Nice try Bernie

They probably don’t even need him. So go ahead and fall on that sword for Trump.

[Fresh Water Falling]

16. Kerik

Sounds kinda like Karen. Just sayin'

[BigmanPigman]

19. Isn't he Rudy's pal from 9/11?

[Novara]

21. That's not how it works, fuckface

You don't get to extort an immunity deal once you've been subpoenaed. You show up to testify or you sit in jail for contempt.

And another thing, fuckface: if you don't think the DOJ already has a mountain of evidence that will put you all away for years, you haven't been paying attention.

Who the fuck do you think you are? The DOJ has bigger fish to fry.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. He already served time a bunch of years ago at Rikers

Time for a stint in another joint.

[republianmushroom]

25. Sounds like that is what criminals do, not former NY police commissioner, Unless ?

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Made Man of the BFEE

Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar & Petro-Turd Bernie Kerik

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2788428

[Montauk6]

27. Anyone else hears The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" in the background...

...when seeing these headlines?