Bernard Kerik Resigns From Giuliani's Consulting Firm

[Placebo]

Former police commissioner and U.S. homeland security nominee Bernard Kerik said Wednesday he will leave Giuliani Partners, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm.

At a news conference in Manhattan, Kerik said he had apologized to Giuliani for being a distraction because of his messy withdrawal as a candidate to head the Department of Homeland Security.

The former New York corrections commissioner said he told Giuliani his resignation would be effective immediately. He said he would seek other unspecified business opportunities.

He did not take questions from reporters.

More...

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4018439/detail.html

[tk2kewl]

1. Poor guy

everyone is picking on him. :cry:

:nopity:

[GRLMGC]

16. If a great guy like him can't get a break

who can?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[tjdee]

2. Philandering, tax evading mobster pals can't work for heroes,sorry!

Hilarious.

Maybe Rudy should know his "friends" a bit better...kind of ridiculous though, because Rudy STILL kisses the butt of Georgie W.

[maddezmom]

3. saw the same, and Rudy is going to hold a news conf....

wonder if Kerik is going to be indicted for something related to the mob case??

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Couldn't happen to a better guy - and egg all over Rudy's face!

:evilgrin:

[Moderator]

5. Please post a link

as soon as you can get one

Thanks

[Robbien]

6. Resigns? That's the word they are calling it?

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.

Couldn't even wait until after the holidays to kick Kerik's butt out the door.

[underpants]

22. Going to "spend more time with his family"

or someone else's

[RedEarth]

7. I wonder if he got $6 million to leave Rudy's firm...

just like he did when he left the taser gun company.

[Robbien]

12. Aw, didn't you see Taser's PR release

Taser said don't blame Kerik, every executive does it. And they were serious!

[maddezmom]

14. from CNN...Taser defends Kerik

Taser defends Kerik

Stun gun maker says embattled board member did nothing wrong in $6.8M sale of shares.
December 22, 2004: 8:33 AM EST



DENVER (Reuters) - Taser International is defending board member Bernard Kerik, who recently withdrew his nomination as U.S. Homeland Security secretary.


Bernark Kerik, who has come under fire for profits he made from Taser stock.
Kerik properly exercised stock options, the maker of stun guns used by police and the military said Tuesday.

The former New York City police commissioner turned down President Bush's offer to be in the cabinet, saying he had discovered that a former nanny who worked in his home may have been an illegal immigrant.



But attention has also been paid to the stock options Kerik received from the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company, which sells its stun guns to police departments and other government entities.


more: http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/newsmakers/taser_kerik.reut/index.htm

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Guess he'll have to live on only mob kickbacks now...

:nopity:

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[gnofg]

11. Surprised

just like Rudy. Keep those affairs going

[NNN0LHI]

13. I don't care who or how many he was zooming. Kerik is a THUG

Thats good enough for me.

Don

[0007]

33. The prick's down fall was that he got caught.

When ya play in the street ya get run over.

I hope his wife leaves his ugly ass, I hope her girl friends take it on the Aurthur Duffy and I hope the mob smacks this sucker in the chops so he can't talk be like ordinary folks.

Only junior could come up with a creep like this two-bit thug.

[itzamirakul]

10. So when is the investigation into Rudy's

secret dealings going to begin?

At least Rudy gave Kerik the chance to resign himself. That is more than Rudy did for his former wife, Donna hanover. He announced that he was separating from her at a press conference BEFORE HE EVEN TOLD DONNA. She was left with egg all over her face.

Karma, Rudy...Karma

[maddezmom]

15. link here:Bernard Kerik Resigns From Giuliani's Consulting Firm

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4018439/detail.html

[wicket]

17. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[T Bone]

18. So Rudy G finally ran a background check on him, eh ?

n/t

[Placebo]

30. These things take time.

[caligirl]

19. opportunist!! Be gone with you!!

[underpants]

20. Wow talk about the sky falling in

Couldn't have happened to bigger piece of crap

[Robbien]

21. I just hope he doesn't reappear when all the heat is off

Putting that man in any position of power endangers the civil and personal rights of anyone working for him.

[Sleepless In NY]

24. LOL!! I'm loving this!

kerik did such a hatchet job on Kerry for bush. Yet he couldn't protect NY and couldn't train policemen in Iraq! So nice to finally see him exposed for what he really is. Must be true...what goes around, comes around. ROFLMAOOO!!!

[Tess49]

55. Faux will probably give him his own show

[ElaineinIN]

23. gulianni on live now

how far can you run away, Rudy?

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. Why resign? This runs counter to the rw playbook.

He should simply declare that he has found Jesus and go about his business with new found respect.

[Placebo]

28. Jesus wipes away ALL past improprieties.

If you're a Republican, that is.

[Khephra]

26. "To do a "Kerik""

"He Keriked."

Use the word. Learn to love it.

:evilgrin:

[NYC]

27. He also resigned from Giuliani-Kerik.

Just to make sure everyone is clear on this, Kerik resigned from Giuliani Partners and from Giuliani-Kerik.

[kentuck]

34. I heard him say he was resigning from "G-K" and "G-P"...

Good point.

[Osamasux]

48. "Quick, scratch his name off the door!"

From the NY Times:
"In a statement, Mr. Giuliani said Giuliani-Kerik LLC, an affiliate of Giuliani Partners, would be renamed Giuliani Security & Safety. Mr. Kerik had been chief executive officer of Giuliani-Kerik."

[NYC]

52. Will Giuliani Security & Safety be in the business of doing background

checks?

Just wondering. :)

[Robbien]

53. The new head of Giuliani Security is to be Daniel Connelly

This guy was the general counsel for New York. In 2002 he is the one who decided to change the procedure on protesters where they should be jailed instead of given just a desk warrant.

http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/crime/20010801/4/208

Until May 1, this policy of jailing some demonstrators had been informally enforced. On May 1, for reasons that "remain unclear," according to the New York Times, the Chief of Department (the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer) formalized the policy. He issued a directive forbidding desk appearance tickets for offenses committed at demonstrations of 20 people or more. All demonstrators, he ordered, were to be, in police terminology, "processed on-line," meaning detained for arraignment. You and I would call it jailed.

Daniel Connolly, the lawyer in charge of this for the city's Corporation Counsel, defended the new police policy. He argued that the policy was intended to discourage crime and to process offenders (i.e., protesters) efficiently. In a June interview Connolly said, "The police department has many exceptions in which desk appearance tickets are not given--in cases of assault, for example, or cases involving alcohol, or when people are from out of town. No DATs. This is just another exception."

Connolly also mentioned what he called "the recidivist threat," the problem that demonstrators committed to civil disobedience will reappear at the rally if they are released with a desk appearance ticket. Meanwhile, minor offenses committed by anyone but demonstrators--littering, for example, or walking a dog off leash--would still generally be handled with desk appearance tickets. Only demonstrators were to be jailed.

[NYC]

56. Very disheartening.

[imenja]

60. $$$$

wow, those guys sure know how to parley a government job or two into a gold mine. How do I get in on the action? Would I have to go through a mob initiation?
Oh, any word on Kerick's bigamy worries? Any chance that he'll be charged over that?

[NYC]

65. You would think there would be a limit to greed.

How much money do you need that after acquiring MILLIONS, you still need to lie, cheat, and steal to get more. I really don't understand that. Likely, if Giuliani and Kerik had just "retired", they wouldn't have been caught now. (Not that Giuliani is yet "caught". But, considering Giuliani's company does background checks, you would think this company's reputation would suffer just a little.)

I doubt the bigamy will be investigated. If it was indeed just an "overlap", other people have done it, including a former president of the United States. Can't swear who he was, maybe Jackson. Anyway, he was married around the time he moved into the White House, and his wife was not quite divorced at the time. Edited to add: They were quickly remarried after her divorce became final.

Believe it or not, there was yet another "revelation" about Kerik, but I just can't remember what it was. I really can't keep up anymore. I'm just waiting for the NYC Dept. of Investigations to do its thing. I am hopeful.

[imenja]

66. Kerick already has job offers

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/37052.htm

"Meanwhile, dressed in a blazer and dark overcoat yesterday, Kerik strolled out of Nello's on Madison Avenue with his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, at his side.



"Just Christmas shopping," was all a smiling Kerik would say as he slipped into a waiting car.

Tacopina said Kerik already has job offers.

"I've had just a few phone calls over the last 24 hours," said Tacopina. "He's going to be OK. Here's a guy that the president picked to keep this country safe, and he's now on the market."

Only in America.

[NYC]

67. Nello's, Kerik, Iraq Ambassador.

Iraq Ambassador dines at Nello's on Madison Avenue.

3/29/2003 Getty Images
NEW YORK - MARCH 29: L-R Iraq Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri dines with UN Under-Secretary-General (Excecutive Director Office of the Iraq Program) Benon V. Sevan March 29, 2003 at ...

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp
http://www.highbeam.com/aspx/getThumb.aspx?url=

None of that link stuff worked, not even to the page, so I have posted the photo at Image Shack.




Wouldn't you be ashamed to hire someone like Kerik if you had a company? Wouldn't you want to aim for an image of integrity? Silly me. Crime DOES pay.

Anyway, I thought the Nello's connection was interesting.

[NYC]

68. Kerik Christmas Return. (N.Y. Post)

Hosted by Image Shack.

New York Post, Sunday, December 26, 2004

[0007]

69. Great cartoon! Now who will be the next appointee for Homeland Security?

I vote for Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Sammy will work hard with junior to make America proud.


What a guy!

No returns with Gravano.

[NYC]

70. That's hilarious,

but possibly true. (If they can only cover up his past.)

[imenja]

71. I love it

Thanks for sharing.

[Placebo]

29. Just saw a clip of him speaking on CNN...

talking about how he wants to take some time off to be with his family and "clear my (his) good name." HA!

[0007]

72. The crime family or his girl friends family? I don't think he dares

go home to his wife.

[mediaman007]

31. Did he get the Golden Parachute?

[Stinky The Clown]

32. "I'm sorry, Rudy ..... I really am ... can I still hang out witchew guys?"

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Rudy's in deeper shit than Bernie. America's mayor, the one note wonder, Liddle Rudy (9/11-9/11-9/11) Ghouliani is headed for the policitcal shit pile and Bernie No Neck is taking him there. The height of their collective careers was Bernie's nomination for Uberfuhrer of Faterland Sekurity. That and playing recorded reruns of them walking on bodies in Lower Manhatten.

Fuck you Rudy.

Buh Bye Bernie.

(Think Bye Bye Birdie ....... Bye Byyyyyeeeee Beeeeeeernie ..... we're gunnnnnnnnnna miss you so ...... )


Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Placebo]

38. I know, I'm so EXCITED!

This just gets worse and worse for Giuliani with every new day. It will destroy them all. :evilgrin:

Say good-bye to any "President Giuliani" talk!

"America's Mayor" my arse.

[Stinky The Clown]

40. But yanno what ......... ?

I seriously believe that Rove knew all about Bernie, calculated the hit Chimpus Khan would take when it looked like bad vetting, and decided the pay off was worth the risk.

The payoff ...... Rudy gone.

Hey Ahnold ...... whatcher ass, muh man.

The harder part .... how to take out Hagel and get Frist a personality infusion.

[Placebo]

44. Good point...

I could definitely see Rove doing something like that.

[Osamasux]

47. If they knew, they would have let it leak ...

... before they nominated him. They would have gotten the same impact on Rudy, without the embarrassment for Bush. "Wow, good thing WE checked. This Rudy guy sent us a mobster."

Bush took this one on the chin, also. Three for the price of one = Sweet


and another link
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/nyregion/22cnd-keri.html?hp&ex=1103778000&en=809ad6c751b1219a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[lumpy]

35. Had no idea

Kerik was in business with Giuliani. Monkey business no doubt.

[rocktivity]

36. Couldn't have happened to a nicer pair of guys

Owners of consulting firms can't exhibit such poor judgment--especially when it comes to hiring. Maybe Rudy ought to shut his business down on general principle.

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[Qutzupalotl]

37. He apologized for "being a distraction."

When will he apologize for being a slimeball?

[Robbien]

39. Yes being all mobbed-up is just a distraction in this new land of ours

Committing stock fraud and receiving illegal gifts are just other small irritations.

No wonder these BushCo guys keep calling everyone thugs. Projection.

[sundancekid]

41. another link info

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/12/22/kerik/index_np.html

[AlCzervik]

42. Rudy is trying to remove that stain

How will he remove his own?

[Art_from_Ark]

63. All the washing in the world

won't remove the stain from MacRudi's hands

Out, out damn spot!

[LiviaOlivia]

43. Here's hoping David Chase does his

take on the scumbag Kerik. Even the hypocrite/sociopath Tony Soprano would have "done something" when Kerik started kissing Bush ass and became a Feds darling.

[Disturbed]

45. Rudy got aced out!

His and his bozo's arrogance over rode any logic. They thought that 911 could carry them to the top. Rove set them up. Good riddance to them both. Should we thank Rove?

[AlCzervik]

46. Rudy got Roved in a big way but he deserved it

the ghosts of 9/11 are coming back to haunt him. Ok, so who will Rove Rove?

[Osamasux]

49. It's spreading further!!!

Check out this new thread in Late Breaking News

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1092866

[donheld]

50. Placebo do you just delight in picking on this fool?

:nopity: :cry: :hurts: :cry:
nobody love's him everybody hates him, guess he'll eat some worms

[Pithy Cherub]

54. Kerik got a starring role in Rove's Fear Factor...

worms eating worms!

[saigon68]

51. He can always DRIVE A TRUCK for Halliburton

Or use his skills as a deviant to molest children.

[VegasWolf]

57. He was Rudi's chauffeur? I still think he had donkey pictures of Rudi.n/t

[proudbluestater]

58. Maybe he's going back to finish high school?

[zann725]

59. "...other unspecified business opportunities?!" He's gonna work for Bush

undercover. Please!

"Unspecified business opportunities," my !?@? This guy is a total sleaze, and for that reason exactly, they'll put him on payroll...one way or another. For that's exactly what attracted them to Rove...his unparalleled criminal ways.

Rove didn't set this up...come on! He just got sloppy...assuming they didn't have to bother anymore with "rules" or "appearances."

[Must_B_Free]

61. Soon to be a Con Sulking firm...

[Massachusetts]

62. Look out Bernie

There may be a horse's head on a silver platter at the foot of your LOVE MAT some bright morning.....You talkin to me Bernie, you talkin to me???:bounce:

[Bono71]

64. This obviously demonstrates that Rudi plans to run in 08...

otherwise, why resign now?

[sandnsea]

73. Kerik, working class scapegoat

All the rich fucks that do this shit all the time continue to walk, this guy is thrown overboard. Because he comes from the other side of the tracks, so who gives a shit anyway. Classic. He's scum, but I don't feel any satisfaction when the rest of the scum aren't gone after the same way Kerik has been.