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Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to the White House, a case he described on Twitter as “unprecedented, selective, and overreaching.”
Kerik is accused of denying he had financial dealings with contractors seeking to do business with the city. Prosecutors say contractors renovated his apartment in 1999 and 2000 while he was a city official.
President Bush had picked him to run the Homeland Security Department in 2004.
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