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Bernard Kerik

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    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:

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    This Week in the Voice

    ​Pazz & Jop needs no introduction. The main page, the albums, the singles, the ballots, and essays by Sean Fennessey, Mike Powell, Rich Juzwiak, Chuck Eddy, Zach Baron, Maura Johnston, Rob Harvilla, Mikael Wood, Clover Hope, and Das Racist. The celebrity sudoku known as blind items is a mena ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 19, 2010

    Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik: The Final Chapter

    After Kerik's guilty plea, more secrets slip out

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Barrett: More Unsavory Characters on Snyder's Campaign Money List

    ​Yesterday, Wayne Barrett began to uncover the unsavory characters who have helped fuel Leslie Crocker Snyder's campaign to be the next Manhattan District Attorney. Now, in part two, Barrett continues that list, focusing this time on political conservatives who are backing Snyder... Richard G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Ray Kelly's Social Life? Fabulous, Darling!

    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 >>

  • Columns

    December 3, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Bernie Kerik Denounces Critics as "Cockroaches"

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Bernie Kerik's MySpace Mood is Determined

    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 >>

  • News

    October 23, 2007

    'No Skeletons in My Closet!'

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

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    The Wit and Wisdom of Bernie Kerik

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

  • News

    July 17, 2007

    Letters

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

  • News

    August 22, 2006

    Rudy's Grand Illusion

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

  • News

    July 18, 2006

    Court Date for Bernie's Pals

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

  • News

    July 4, 2006

    Kerik Cops a Sweet Plea

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

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2006

    Bernie, in His Own Words

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

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2005

    Mob-tied Company paid for Kerik Pad: Report

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

  • News

    September 6, 2005

    Rudy to the Rescue

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

  • News

    May 3, 2005

    Rudy's Kerik Problem

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

  • News

    May 3, 2005

    Debt Collection

    Bernie's Deadbeat Pals

  • News

    January 11, 2005

    The Eve of Destruction

    George Bush is getting four more years to remake the world in his image. (Too bad for us, he already started.)

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2004

    Gonzales 'Grilled' Kerik?

    George Bush is getting four more years to remake the world in his image. (Too bad for us, he already started.)

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    Bernie Kerik's Bad Company

    Another Giuliani aide went to bat for troubled construction firm

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    Lost and Found

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

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2004

    Kerik: Yet Another Bad Trip

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

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2004

    Morning Report 12/11/04
    The Kerik Ouster

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

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2004

    Morning Report 12/10/04
    The Baton Is Passed

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

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2004

    Morning Report 12/9/04
    Stunning News

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

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2004

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

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

  • News

    November 30, 2004

    Saint Bernard

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

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    A Jail Like a Slave Ship

    ‘I Thought I Was Dying Every Day’

  • News

    December 12, 2000

    Roaming Rikers

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

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