His pal Bernie Kerik didn’t help him any.
A contractor buddy of the city’s imprisoned ex-police commissioner was convicted of perjury in Bronx Supreme Court yesterday, despite a gaunt and tense Kerik having taken the stand on his behalf last month.
Jurors found that Peter DiTommaso, of Franklin Lakes, NJ, had lied in telling a grand jury that he and his brother didn’t foot the bill for a $255,000 renovation of Kerik’s Riverdale home.
The jury is still out on DiTommaso’s sibling, Frank, of Short Hills, NJ, who also is charged with perjury, and will continue deliberations Monday.
Kerik was the city Correction Department boss when he landed the renovations freebie. At the time, he had been personally lobbying officials to lift a ban on awarding city contracts to the DiTommasos’ allegedly mob-linked company. But at the brothers’ trial last month, Kerik had claimed on the stand that he’d lied to two judges when he told them in guilty pleas that the brothers had in fact paid for his quarter-million-dollar renovations.
Peter DiTommaso faces up to 2 1/3 to seven years in prison when sentenced Feb. 28.