Disgraced ex-top cop Bernard Kerik wants to be treated more like Timothy Geithner.
In new court papers, the former police commissioner complains that the feds want to send him to prison for the same sort of problems that officials overlooked in Geithner, whom the Senate confirmed yesterday as treasury secretary.
In an obvious reference to Geithner’s tax troubles, Kerik’s lawyers in White Plains federal court cited “recent events” showing that the vetting process for presidential appointees is “an imperfect one, during which mistakes and omissions occur.”
While Geithner was allowed to pay his back taxes, Kerik was “treated differently” in his tax-fraud indictment, his lawyers charged.
Kerik also is charged with lying to the White House during his aborted nomination to head the Homeland Security Department.