NEW YORK, NY November 08, 2007 —Federal prosecutors in White Plains today were pressing for an indictment of former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on corruption charges.

The case includes allegations he accepted free renovation work on his Bronx apartment from a contractor who was seeking city approval to run a waste transfer station. Kerik pleaded guilty last year to misdemeanour counts that he failed to disclose gifts from a company looking for city business.

His latest legal troubles have complicated the Presidential run of his close friend and mentor, former mayor Rudolph Giuliani. We begin our coverage with a look back at the relationship between Giuliani and Kerik. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has that part of the story.