1. The company was being investigated for ties to organized crime. –Allowing an official of the same company to pay more than $236,000 in rent for another Kerik apartment. –Omitting those payments from his financial disclosure forms, his tax returns and the state grand jury that investigated him. –Getting witnesses to lie about the payments to investigators. –Falsely answering written and oral questions from federal agencies as he applied for federal posts including Homeland Security director. –Falsely claiming $80,000 in charitable contributions and a home–office deduction on his income tax forms. –Not reporting the wages he paid to a nanny for his children and not paying her Social Security and Medicaid taxes. –Not reporting royalties from a forward he wrote for a book. –Falsifying a mortgage application by not disclosing that he had borrowed – from a real estate agent doing business with the city – the funds he was using as a down payment.