A city councilman charged yesterday that “racial profiling” by Bernard Kerik and Rudy Giuliani in the late 1990s led to more than 100 black correction officers being arrested or fired for breaking tax rules, and he called for a state investigation.
Councilman Charles Barron of Brooklyn also alleged during a City Hall press conference that many white correction officers broke the same tax laws but were not penalized.
Kerik’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, called the allegations “laughable.”
Sunny Mindell, Giuliani’s spokeswoman, called the charges “baseless.”