By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik was offered a three-year prison term in a plea deal that would consolidate the three federal trials he faces, sources told the Daily News.
Kerik is accused of exchanging city contracts for rennovations from a mob-associated construction firm in the first trial, tax evasion in the second case, and lying to White House officials vetting him for Secretary of Homeland Security in the third.
The plea deal would consolidate the three cases, with Kerik facing between 27 and 33 months in prison, instead of the possible maximum of 20 years, reports the News.
In exchange for the reduced time, Kerik would have to admit to a lesser charge of conspiracy to deprive the city of honest services, filing false statements and own up to hiding $300,000 worth of assets from the IRS.
Kerik had not formally accepted the deal on Tuesday.
The lawman turned prisoner has had a tumultous time recently.
In October, federal judge Stephen C. Robinson revoked his bail after Kerik revealed confidential trial information to the head of his legal defense fund. After arriving at a Westchester County Jail, Kerik was held in isolation from other prisoners because of his career in law enforcement.
Days later, he was placed in a special mental health unit after Judge Robinson said he "exhibited troubling behavior," the New York Times reported.
Kerik was given a psychiatric evaluation and was put back into his regular cell on Monday.
