Investigators allege Kerik took money from mob-linked contractors

BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO
STAFF WRITER

November 16, 2005

New Jersey officials Tuesday alleged that Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, took money or "things of value" from two reputedly mob-linked contractors attempting to influence his actions as a public official.

The claims were made in a complaint filed by New Jersey law enforcement officials with the Casino Control Commission in an effort to revoke casino industry licenses granted to the contractors and their companies.

Kerik is not doing any business in the New Jersey casino industry and is not charged with wrongdoing in the complaint, but officials said that the contractors in question, brothers Frank and Peter DiTommaso, had a long-standing relationship with him.