Bernard Kerik

NYPD Warrant Squad Cops Wear Controversial "Hunting of Man" T-Shirts

Members of the NYPD's Queens Warrant Squad were spotted last week wearing T-shirts imprinted with a quote that some folks might find just a little bit offensive. A photo is at right. The quote reads, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and l ... More >>

Bernard Kerik, Disgraced Former Police Commissioner, is Getting Out of Prison in Two Weeks!

After three years, Bernie's coming back. Yes, folks, Bernard Kerik, jails commissioner, police commissioner, alleged adulterer, aborted Homeland Security secretary, tax fraudster and perjurer will emerge from federal prison in two weeks and finish out his four year sentence in a New Jersey halfway ... More >>

Bernie Kerik, Mike Caruso and Rose Gill Hearn: More Nuggets From the Court File

In this week's paper, the Voice examines Investigations Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn's handling of the uncomfortably close relationship between her Inspector General for Correction, Michael Caruso, and disgraced former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Here now are three other intriguing nuggets o ... More >>

Even from Behind Bars, Bernie Kerik Passes Along His Infection

Feeling the Bern

Bernie Kerik's Cyber-Jail Break: Posts Blog From Prison Cell

​Who is the world's most unstoppable blogger? Who brings us the truth no matter how hard the Powers-That-Be try to stop him? The award goes - hands down - to Bernard B. Kerik, the convicted felon and former city police commissioner who is still managing to publish his blog even while incarcera ... More >>

Bernie Kerik, the Lost Son, Finds a New Home

​Bernie Kerik titled his best-selling 2001 autobiography "The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice" and you have to admit he has lived up to this creed, if not exactly the way he intended. The ex-police commissioner, having lost his way on the path to law enforcement stardom, awoke this morn ... More >>

Bernard Kerik Blogs About Rocky, Heads Off to Prison

​What would you do your last night of freedom before heading off to the federal penitentiary? On Bernard Kerik's pre-prison checklist: blog, watch inspirational fight movie with daughters, ask history not to judge. From Bernardkerik.blogspot.com:

Bernie Kerik, the Next Lil Wayne, Blogging Before Prison

​In the least likely to have a blog category, you might put rapper Lil Wayne, who is currently serving a year at Riker's Island after pleading guilty to gun charges. And yet Weezy Thanx You is thriving, the latest entry being a think piece on the Eagles trading quarterback Donovan McNabb. (The ... More >>

Joe Scarborough Goes Crazy for Rudy Giuliani (And We Mean Crazy)

​Too much Starbucks pushed Mornin' Joe Scarborough into a full-throated, looney-tunes, rant this week in defense of our own local heroes Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik. It's been exhilarating to see Rudy back on a national TV tour lately, reminding us what an expert we had in City ... More >>

Rudy Giuliani Is Too Worried About Bernie Kerik's Kids

​The latest installment of the dangling tabloid conversation between Bernie Kerik and former person who took his calls Rudy Giuliani is in the Staten Island Advance. In the course of an interview about his blowing off yesterday's scheduled City Hall Michael Grimm endorsement appearance, Americ ... More >>

Bernie Kerik Betrayed By Kids' Godfather, Rudy Giuliani

Who better to have the last say on Bernie Kerik than that Grand Dame of Tabloid letters, Cindy Adams? To help ensure that her wonderful closing interview with Kerik and wife published in today's Post receives the attention it deserves, we here provide some of the nuggets that Adams mined when she vi ... More >>

Bernard Kerik, Former NYPD Commissioner, Sentenced to 4 Years

​Having pleaded guilty in November of fraud and false statements to the White House while under consideration for Secretary of Homeland Security, former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik came to court today to receive his sentence: four years in prison. Kerik asked the judge to "allow me to ret ... More >>

Bernie Kerik, Cry Baby? Read Tough Cop's Email -- and Weep!

​Who knew that Bernie Kerik, the bullet-headed tough cop now headed to prison, was such a whiner? A really good whiner too, as proved by the latest submission by federal prosecutors to the White Plains judge who will sentence Kerik next week to somewhere north of 27 months. Prosecutors cite a ... More >>

Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik: The Final Chapter

After Kerik's guilty plea, more secrets slip out

Kerik Gets Bail

First he got jail, now he has bail: former top cop Bernie Kerik, who during his recent trial was briefly jailed when the judge found him untrustworthy, and who pleaded guilty to fraud charges last week, is free on $1.4 million bail until his sentencing on February 18. It's not as nice as it sounds ... More >>

Rudy's Night: Yankees win, Kerik loses

​Midway in the World Series last night, Fox's TV cameras lingered on top Yankee fan Rudolph Giuliani, seated in his customary box adjacent to the dugout (The cost? No man knows.) The ex-mayor's team was up by three runs, but his jaw was set in grimace, his teeth bared as though ready to bite s ... More >>

Kerik Pleads Guilty

Bernie Kerik was transported from the hoosegow to the courthouse today where he pleaded guilty to federal charges of lying to the Bush Administration while he was being vetted for the post of Homeland Security chief, regarding some bills on which he received assistance from a potential city vendor ... More >>

Kerik "Symptoms" in Jail Show Him "At Risk," Says Psych Report

We never thought we'd be worried about Bernie Kerik, hero of 9/11 and all-around alpha male. But the reaction of a judge to the findings of prison doctor Robert Mahler, under whose care Kerik fell when he was sent to the Westchester County Jail for pissing off the judge in his fraud trial, give us ... More >>

Short subjects

The Times and News endorse Bloomberg. The Times takes the occasion to undiplomatically point out that they never liked term limits to begin with. The Times also credits the Mayor's multi-jillion dollar campaign with saving the local economy by spending a lot of money on pizza. Two firetrucks collid ... More >>

Kerik-connected contractors poured cracked concrete at Yankee Stadium

​After less than a year, cracks are already appearing in the concrete pedestrian walkways in the $1.5 billion city-subsidized Yankee Stadium. The company that poured the concrete, Interstate Industrial Corporation, is currently starring in the trial of former Giuliani Police Commissioner Berni ... More >>

"Top Cock" Kerik's Mug Shot, Jailing Unleash Media Schadenfreude

​"Kerik's Mug Shot is Released," says the New York Times. Well, guess even broadsheets are tabloids now. The Daily News has it too, and even bigger, and the Post headlines the "disgraced ex-police commissioner"'s incarceration story "Kerik in the clink." Also, Eyewitness News anchor Bill Ri ... More >>

Bernie Kerik Goes to Jail

Bernard Kerik, former NYPD commissioner and hero of 9/11. will sleep in a cell tonight as the federal judge in his fraud trial, who had previously indicated he was fed up with Kerik's shenanigans, revoked his bail. Judge Stephen Robinson had blasted Kerik and his lawyers for feeding information ... More >>

'NYPD Confidential' Tells Tales of Bernie Kerik

​The latest and most detailed recounting of the epic New York City police disaster known as Bernie Kerik is in Leonard Levitt's fascinating new tell-all history, NYPD Confidential. Levitt, who wrote a column for Newsday that now runs on the Web, tells of sitting at his desk in One Police Plaz ... More >>

Bernie Kerik Indicted in D.C.

The "cockroaches" are after him again: Former Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik has been indicted in Washington for making false statements to the Bush White House when he was being vetted for Secretary of Homeland Security. That vetting, you may recall, was a debacle which not only revealed Kerik's ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Social Life? Fabulous, Darling!

Giuliani's Rudy-in-Nylons Skit Starred Some Witless Crooks

Bernie Kerik Denounces Critics as "Cockroaches"

Daily Flog: Birth of a notion opens in St. Paul; oil price plummets, along with GOP veep's rep; everybody's Google-eyed

Bernie Kerik's MySpace Mood is Determined

'No Skeletons in My Closet!'

Oh yeah? How Michael Mukasey and Bernie Kerik are haunting Rudy's run.

The Wit and Wisdom of Bernie Kerik

Letters

Rudy's Grand Illusion

What Giuliani likes to remember about 9-11—and what he actually did (or didn't do)

Court Date for Bernie's Pals

But this is one case America's mayor doesn't want going to trial

Kerik Cops a Sweet Plea

The guy Giuliani and Bush picked to protect us gets a rap sheet

Bernie, in His Own Words

Mob-tied Company paid for Kerik Pad: Report

Rudy to the Rescue

Katrina stuns, Bush stumbles—time to call the master of disaster

Rudy's Kerik Problem

Records detail ex-commish's contacts with alleged mob-tied firm

Debt Collection

Bernie's Deadbeat Pals

Gonzales 'Grilled' Kerik?

Bernie Kerik's Bad Company

Another Giuliani aide went to bat for troubled construction firm

Lost and Found

Soldier, jailer, hero, myth: the rise and fall of Bernard Kerik

Kerik: Yet Another Bad Trip

Morning Report 12/11/04
The Kerik Ouster

Morning Report 12/9/04
Stunning News

Morning Report 12/3/04
Kerik: A Security Guard for the Nation

Saint Bernard

Not so fast on canonizing Kerik—Bush's pick has big critics in New York

A Jail Like a Slave Ship

‘I Thought I Was Dying Every Day’

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony