It's official: Rudy Giuliani's bestest buddy and former police commissioner, Bernie Kerik, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion and corruption.

No real insight to offer--go read the ThinkProgress piece if you want to see the rundown on the ignoble history of "America's Cop."

Still, upon rereading the climax of Giuliani's speech at the 2004 Republican convention, when he said:

Spontaneously, I grabbed the arm of then Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and said to Bernie, "Thank God George Bush is our President."

it's weird to think that his sycophantic praise for Bush may turn out to be the second most embarassing part of that sentence. Just goes to show you that you can never tell how history will judge an event while it's happening, I guess.