High-powered defense lawyer Joseph Tacopina blasted former client Bernard Kerik on Saturday, denying the disgraced former police commissioner’s recently-filed allegations of attorney wrongdoing.
“This is such bulls–t, reheated dog food,” Tacopina said of Kerik accusing him of selling him out to the feds in 2007.
At the time, Kerik was under federal investigation for evading taxes and lying to the White House while under consideration for the post of Homeland Security chief — a rap that would earn him three years prison.
Kerik alleges that Tacopina, who represents Yankee star Alex Rodriguez in his steroid case, had secretly turned witness against him for prosecutors after being kicked off the federal case due to a conflict of interest.
Kerik also accuses Tacopina of illegally calling him in late 2007 despite being on the prosecution’s witness list.
Tacopina denies knowing he was on the witness list when he called, but does acknowledge speaking to prosecutors — with Kerik’s blessing, so he could complain about being tossed off the case.
Tacopina questioned why Kerik never raised a complaint until now, even as he sat in prison filing repeated appeals.
The filing, with the Appellate Division in Manhattan, was described by a source close to Kerik. The ex-commish declined to comment through his lawyer, Raymond Tsimpedes.