NEW YORK, June 30 (UPI) -- Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik admitted Friday that he accepted gifts from contractors.
Kerik pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, The New York Times reported. Justice John Collins, in The Bronx, imposed $221,000 in fines.
Kerik acknowledged violating New York's administrative code and charter while he was corrections commissioner. Investigators found that he paid $30,000 for work on his apartment that was worth about $200,000.
Kerik was police commissioner at the time of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. In 2004, President Bush nominated him to be secretary of homeland security, but Kerik withdrew his name a few days later amid stories of sexual scandal and claims that he had hired an illegal immigrant to care for his children.
Kerik also left a consulting firm founded by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and now works as an independent consultant.
