Now his double affair laid bare: Kerik cheated on wife with Judith Regan and correction officer...and now this (updated)

[Total Square]

that was quite tasteless carl

[carl kolchak]

Your right Bernie. I apologize

[Tildy]

For what it's worth Carl I wondered the same thing. How could you possibly use THAT place at that time for that reason.



Bernie that is.

[Scooter]

Was listening to a radio show this evening, which was describing an article one of the hosts had read.
It stated that a reporter had gone to Kerik's former residence and interviewed the neighbors - none of them had ever seen a housekeeper - legal or illegal, it appears she never existed.
Kerik's wife did the laundry herself, per a neighbor.

Seems like he made this up as an excuse for opting out, trying to avoid all of the news which has come out anyway.

[nino brown]

funny tidbit scooter. my impression of this guy was not the type who would have a housekeeper around in a domestic capacity. if he did have one, and knew she was illegal, imagine what this sicko would do to her. i am glad this guy isnt head of homeland security. i am sure some other nazi will get it, but this guy's capacity for evil imo is truly frightening. i would rather have a wimpy bureacrat for life in the post than a tried and true jailer.

[Scooter]

"The tumultuous Regan-Kerik romance carried on for months, through the writing, publication and promotion of his autobiography, "The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice," which Regan's company published."

It's hard to imagine even right wing "law and order" types wanting to shell out probably $25-30 to read a police commisioner's
autobiography.
Who are the dimwits that comprise the intended audience for this timewaster?

[Scooter]

NYC Police Commissioner was in bed with the Mafia! Shocking!

But only shocking for people who live with their head in the sand. The sort of people who believe that TV network news is providing a fair and realistic portrayal of the world.

The two sides work in unison, and always have.
(Likewise the Drug Enforcement Administration and the major league drug dealers, etc.).

For this to cease, the impossible would have to occur - cops would have to start living on their own salaries only. This will never happen.

[Louis Cypher]

THIS JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER...


Credit cards in Kerik mess

Probe charges while he was the commish

BY PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Bernard Kerik is sworn in as police commissioner by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1998.

An internal NYPD investigation has been launched into possible abuse of department-issued credit cards while Bernard Kerik was police commissioner, the Daily News has learned.

Investigators are poring through Police Headquarters computer data for evidence. Over the Christmas holiday weekend, detectives from the Internal Affairs Bureau seized all the computers from the NYPD office that issues credit cards, Social Security cards, driver's licenses and employment IDs under aliases to undercover cops, law enforcement sources said.

The sources say the investigators are studying how the credit cards were used and what they bought from August 2000 to Dec. 31, 2001, while Kerik was police commissioner.

The inquiry marks the third by a city agency involving Kerik's tenure as a city commissioner.

Since Dec. 10, when Kerik withdrew his nomination for U.S. secretary of homeland security citing concerns over an illegal nanny, The News has disclosed ethical lapses involving two simultaneous extramarital affairs, his ties to a mob-linked contracting firm, gifts he failed to disclose while working for the city and questions on renovations to his Riverdale, Bronx, apartment.

As the scandal widened, Kerik quit his lucrative partnership with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's consulting firm.

The IAB investigators took the equipment from the Confidential Identification section, a small, out-of-the-way office in the Organized Crime Control Bureau on the 12th floor of 1 Police Plaza.

The veteran sergeant who runs the office, Ralph Chartier, was Kerik's supervisor in the Midtown South Precinct when the former police commissioner was a young cop there in the late 1980s.

Chartier has run the office since at least 1997.

Sources said that shortly after Kerik left office, allegations surfaced regarding misuse of the secret credit cards by several detectives who were close to the commissioner.

"If there were allegations back then, I assume they were investigated back then. I can only speculate on the timing of this," said Kerik's attorney, Joseph Tacopina. "We welcome any investigation, because it will separate the smoke and inaccuracies from the facts."

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne declined comment on the matter.

The bills incurred by the various undercover investigators are paid by their divisions - narcotics, for example - and the confidential ID office handles the paperwork.

The limit for most of the cards is between $2,000 and $4,000.

While not directly implicated in the credit-card probe, Kerik is the focus of probes by the city Department of Investigation and the Bronx district attorney's office.

The News disclosed that while he was city correction commissioner, Kerik broke rules on accepting gifts and offered favors to a mob-linked contractor that had hired his brother, Don.

DOI noted that Kerik failed to file a background form when he was appointed police commissioner in 2000, though he had filed one when named correction commissioner two years before that. Under current rules, all commissioners and other high-ranking officials must undergo background checks.

The Bronx district attorney is gathering information about Kerik's purchase and remodeling of two Riverdale apartments in 1999, while he was jails chief. The News reported that the apartments were combined and extensively renovated under building permits filed by a recently indicted contractor and a soon-to-be-indicted engineer. Tacopina has said the building hired the contractor and engineer.

The News disclosed yesterday that book publisher Judith Regan might be forced to testify about an affair she had with the married Kerik in the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001. At the time, Kerik was also involved with correction officer Jeannette Pinero, The News has reported.

Regan's testimony is being sought in a suit filed by a former Correction Department official who claims he was denied a promotion because he disciplined Pinero.

Originally published on January 9, 2005

[Bostongambler]

LC I read his book and you kind of had to feel good for the guy because of his upbringing. His mother being a prostitute and being murdered.

But I quess he really didn't walk the straight and narrow as it appeared.

[Louis Cypher]

BG,

You would have thought Bernie would have gone in the right direction based off of his mom's job and then the horrible murder he had to endure. I guess being in power was this guy's downfall. I'm sure he's sitting pretty (financially) from writing his book so once the embarrassment subsides, he'll go on living the cake life that he's accustomed to having. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

LC

[Bostongambler]

Not to mention the money he made from the Taser stock

[Total Square]

now taser being investigated

[jag]

bo dietl won't lay off his action anymore...

[Louis Cypher]

Kerik's royalties shocker

Gets 75G for 9/11 book

BY PAUL D. COLFORD and RUSS BUETTNER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik accepted thousands of dollars in royalties from a book published to raise money for the families of heroes killed on Sept. 11, 2001, the Daily News has learned.

Kerik contributed an 11-sentence foreword to the book of photographs, titled "In the Line of Duty," in which he praised police and firefighters who "desperately fought and struggled and bled and died in a noble effort."

"Theirs is a story beyond words; a story of bravery, fidelity and sacrifice; a story that must never be forgotten," Kerik wrote.

Kerik's royalties on the book have so far totaled $75,954.52, sources told The News.

The deal came about when Kerik was engaged in a torrid year-long affair with the book's publisher, Judith Regan, as The News revealed in December.

In contrast, former Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, who also wrote an introduction to the book, accepted no money. Von Essen directed ReganBooks to include his payment in its charitable donation, according to the publisher's spokesman.

"Von Essen did not want to get paid, and in lieu of getting paid he wanted the money donated to charity," said Paul Crichton, a ReganBooks spokesman.

Crichton confirmed Kerik was paid, but declined to discuss the amount, citing company policy.

Asked about the royalties, Kerik spokesman Robert Leonard said the city's former top cop has donated far more to charity since late 2001.

Leonard said Kerik paid income taxes on the royalties and has donated $150,000 to charitable causes, including $120,000 to Sept. 11-related charities and $50,000 to groups that help the families of cops and firefighters.

Leonard declined to provide documents that would substantiate the numbers.

The book's cover states: "Publisher's profits will be donated to the New York Police & Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund," which was created in 1985 by former New York Met great Rusty Staub.

Indeed, ReganBooks has donated some $500,000 to the charity, and continues to send checks and detailed accounting statements every six months, said the charity's treasurer, David Golush.

"Tom Von Essen was our point person on that," Golush said. "Von Essen is the one who called me up and said is it all right if [the charity] gets the profits from the book."

Von Essen serves on the charity's board of directors.

Golush said he didn't know Kerik had received royalties.

"That's news to me, news to everyone," Golush said.

Gene Russianoff, director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the proceeds from the photo book should have gone straight to the charity.

"I'm sure when they look at the book, people think they are helping out the department," Russianoff said.

The book, a collection of photographs at Ground Zero, spent four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.

Kerik's royalty checks were mailed to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's consulting firm in the name of Gryphon Strategic Group, a Delaware-based entity that Kerik created. Kerik resigned from Giuliani's firm in December, amid the controversy that enveloped him after he withdrew his nomination as President Bush's homeland security secretary.

The News reported that Kerik used a secret apartment overlooking Ground Zero to carry on extramarital affairs with Regan and a female correction officer in the weeks after the terrorist attacks.

The News also revealed that Kerik had helped his brother and a close friend get jobs with a city contractor who was battling allegations that his company was mob controlled.

The city Department of Investigation is probing the allegations.

Originally published on March 13, 2005

[jjgold]

I cannot even get one date