Lawyer for ex-N.Y. Police Chief Kerik Disqualified From Case
A judge has barred lawyer Kenneth Breen from representing former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik because of a conflict of interest.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson of White Plains, N.Y., said the conflict is “so severe that no remedial measure will cure it,” the New York Times reports.
Breen helped negotiate a guilty plea by Kerik in a previous state case and could be a government witness in the pending federal case, the New York Times reports. Both cases concerned allegations that Kerik accepted free renovations from a construction company.
Prosecutors claim Kerik used Breen and a former lawyer in the prior case to make false statements to prosecutors, Reuters reports. Kerik pleaded guilty to lying about the renovations on financial disclosure forms in the prior case, the New York Daily News reports.
