Bernard Kerik

The last Democratic President to name someone from New Jersey to his cabinet was Lyndon B. Johnson, who in 1965 had three New Jerseyans in his twelve-member cabinet: Douglas Dillon who had been the Secretary of the Treasury under John F. Kennedy, Nicholas Katzenbach was Attorney General, and John Connor was the Secretary of Commerce.  When Connor left in 1967, Johnson named another New Jerseyan, Alexander Trowbridge, to replace him.

The Record’s Charles Stile reported today that federal agents searched the Paramus home of State Sen. Joseph Coniglio, the target of a federal criminal investigation.  That will almost certainly create some chatter at Hillary Clinton’s national campaign headquarters, where a senior campaign official had a “conversation” in recent weeks about the Coniglio probe with lobbyist Harold Hodes, an advisor to the New Jersey Clinton campaign.

The Clinton campaign, sources say, wanted to hear from Hodes about his grand jury appearance, in response to a federal subpoena, regarding allegations that Coniglio obtained state funds for Hackensack University Medical Center while working as a paid consultant. At the time, Hodes’ firm, Public Strategies/Impact, was the HUMC lobbyist. The hospital received over $1 million in state grants while Coniglio was on their payroll.

Let me see if I've got this right. Bill Clinton supposedly lied during a civil deposition about a nonmaterial fact involving a personal relationship and they impeached him as President of the United States. Scooter Libby lied about remembering being briefed about  Valarie Palme being a CIA agent. He's going to jail.

Now put Rudy Guliani in the picture. His staff told him that his nominee for the NYPD Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik,  associated with organized crime figures. He was informed of alleged gratuities that Kerik was receiving from for these individuals while assisting them with government approvals. Guliani testified before a federal grand jury that he doesn't remember the briefing. He's running for President.