The problem that the close political allegiance between Rudolph Giuliani and Bernard Kerik poses for Giuliani’s presidential campaign is so straightforward that it can be expressed in the short form poem of a haiku:
Giuliani can’t
give us a clean government
with friends like Kerik.
Kerik has been caught in a web of corruption going back to his days in New York City government as Giuliani’s police commissioner. He is now under indictment for wire and mail fraud, lying on a mortgage application, lying on an application to become leader of the Department of Homeland Security, and tax fraud.
(Source: New York Times, November 9, 2007)
