Kerik's 'Dept. of Corruption' [View All]

December 26, 2004 -- A whistleblowing former deputy warden has sent the U.S. Justice Department a 178-page report slamming Bernie Kerik for turning the city Department of Correction into "the Department of Corruption" over the 51/2-year period he worked there.

Terrence Skinner, 43, once a top correction cop who was promoted by Kerik and got plum assignments, said he wrote the report and delivered it to the feds last week to set the record straight on his former boss ? and because Kerik was "positioning himself for some future governmental position."

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Skinner's report, delivered to Attorney General John Ashcroft's office in Washington on Thursday, alleges:

* Kerik ordered correction officers to strip-search suspects held on misdemeanor charges ? a violation of a federal court order that led to a $50 million fine against the city.

A federal judge had earlier banned such searches, but Kerik ? then deputy commissioner ? told his men to do them anyway, Skinner claims.

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* That more than $800,000 is still missing from the scandal-scarred Correction Foundation, a little-known outfit headed by Kerik and funded with $1 million in rebates on cigarettes the city bought for Rikers Island inmates from tobacco firms.


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