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Kennah

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Mon Oct 2, 2023, 10:35 PM Oct 2023

Ex-NYPD Boss-Turned-Trump Ally Bernie Kerik Wants Immunity to Testify [View all]

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



Keep lining them up. Plenty of room at the probation office.
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Thank You My Friend BOSSHOG Oct 2023 #1
Who is he to demand anything? Deuxcents Oct 2023 #2
Right. Andrew Weissman says Willis doesn't need him anyway, and his lawyer knows it. ancianita Oct 2023 #3
Bernie is pleading, but it's not going the way he thought it would Kennah Oct 2023 #5
BS former9thward Oct 2023 #6
How do you know. ancianita Oct 2023 #7
How do you know? former9thward Oct 2023 #9
You said: "If Willis didn't need him, she would not be asking him." ancianita Oct 2023 #12
If she had the evidence to indict, she would have. former9thward Oct 2023 #22
That's not how "if" works with prosecutors in a RICO case. ancianita Oct 2023 #23
The prosecutor wants him to testify. former9thward Oct 2023 #4
Worship of the devil's own, Roy L Cohn. Mopar151 Oct 2023 #8
"Who is he to demand anything?" A person.......not much of one though. cstanleytech Oct 2023 #17
Could be that he's afraid, madamesilverspurs Oct 2023 #10
He's already served time in prison. Mr.Bill Oct 2023 #11
Karma can be a bitch ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2023 #13
That's his right not to answer certain questions, but... LudwigPastorius Oct 2023 #14
Oh, it is even worse because by claiming the 5th a jury might think he has something to hide cstanleytech Oct 2023 #18
Precisely. The so far not indicted coconspirator will quickly become indicted conspirator. Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2023 #20
Nice try Bernie Mz Pip Oct 2023 #15
Kerik Fresh Water Falling Oct 2023 #16
Isn't he Rudy's pal from 9/11? BigmanPigman Oct 2023 #19
That's not how it works, fuckface Novara Oct 2023 #21
He already served time a bunch of years ago at Rikers BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #24
Sounds like that is what criminals do, not former NY police commissioner, Unless ? republianmushroom Oct 2023 #25
Made Man of the BFEE Kid Berwyn Oct 2023 #26
Anyone else hears The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" in the background... Montauk6 Oct 2023 #27
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