Kerik was tied into the Pirro implosion (a Rudy Connection)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/nyregion/29pirro.html
By PATRICK HEALY and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: September 29, 2006
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The politics of the Pirro investigation, which was disclosed on Wednesday, seemed more tangled yesterday. Two lawyers with knowledge of the inquiry said that subpoenas had been issued to one current and one former employee of Giuliani Security and Safety, a division of the consulting firm founded by former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

A third man, who works at the company, has been interviewed by F.B.I. agents as part of the inquiry, the lawyers said.

All three men were very close to Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, whom Ms. Pirro consulted in the summer of 2005 about secretly taping her husband, Albert. In the conversations, which were recorded by authorities and detailed in reports on WNBC-TV, Mr. Kerik indicated at one point that he had asked a contact at Mr. Giuliani’s firm to find him a recording device.

Mr. Giuliani, who appointed Mr. Kerik police commissioner and has been close to him, is in the midst of deliberations about whether to run for president in 2008. On Wednesday, shortly after the Pirro investigation became public, Mr. Giuliani abruptly canceled a fund-raiser for her campaign that he was to headline next month.

Sunny Mindel, a spokeswoman for Giuliani Partners, Mr. Giuliani’s firm, said Ms. Pirro was never a client. Of the two men who are still employees, Ms. Mindel said: “Their conduct is not in question. They are merely witnesses.”

Ms. Pirro, who said she never ultimately taped her husband, yesterday intensified her strategy of portraying herself as a wronged wife who was now a victim of prosecutors who have gunned for the Pirros since convicting Mr. Pirro of tax fraud in 2000. Yesterday she asked the United States attorney general to appoint a new prosecutor to take over what she said was a politically driven investigation by federal authorities.


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