Both also have wiseguy connections. Christie got confused and thought he was higher in the pecking order than drumpfie in terms of who could blackmail who, with their mutual skievy relationship. The wiseguys above them straightened that confusion out. Roy Cohn's acolyte 'trumps' whatever clout G & C have with the wiseguys they serve.
G was definitely targeting select crime figures, not wiping out NY O.C. I recall his hand picked police chief pal, and choice to run the US's Dept. of Homeland Security, had some legal troubles, of a specific nature:
"On June 30, 2006, after an 18-month long grand jury investigation conducted by the Bronx District Attorney's Office, Kerik pleaded guilty in Bronx Supreme Court to two ethics violations (unclassified misdemeanors). Kerik acknowledged that he failed to document a personal loan on his annual New York City conflict-of-interest report (a violation of the New York City administrative code) and accepted a gift from a New Jersey construction firm attempting to do business with the city (a violation of the New York City Charter). He was ordered to pay $221,000 in fines after the 10-minute hearing.
On November 8, 2007, in White Plains, New York, Kerik was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of tax fraud, and making false statements. Prosecutors accused Kerik of receiving about $255,000 in discounted apartment renovations to his Bronx apartment from a company seeking to do business with the city of New York.[25] The indictment also charged that Kerik made false statements to the White House during a background investigation for a committee position with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security relating to his children's nanny. Some of the New York charges were dropped in December 2008, after which he was re-indicted in Washington, D.C. on the same charges.[26]
On November 5, 2009, Kerik pleaded guilty to eight felony tax and false statement charges,[27] and was sentenced to forty-eight months in federal prison and three years supervised release (probation)...He was discharged from federal custody on October 15, 2013, after serving five months home confinement, and his supervised release will conclude in October 2016. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik
I think his 3 year probation is up TODAY. How timely.
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