The Terrible Shame of the 9/11 Decade
No question about it that 9/11 was an atrocious horror and the first responders were heroes. But what happened after 9/11 was perhaps a greater horr...
No question about it that 9/11 was an atrocious horror and the first responders were heroes. But what happened after 9/11 was perhaps a greater horr...
Len Levitt | Posted 11.12.2011
Ten years later, the terror has become a low-grade, chronic fear that New Yorkers live with. Fear has made normally cynical New Yorkers more accepting of authority, especially law enforcement authority.
AP | By DAVID K. RANDALL | Posted 11.11.2011
NEW YORK -- It was 8:46 a.m. and Wall Street was almost ready for business when the first plane hit the World Trade Center a decade ago. Dick Grasso, ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.04.2011
Big banks and credit card companies have made a PR misstep in the fight over debit card charges. They're trying to use the Bush administration's anti-terror team to convince Americans that debit card fees are needed for our nation's security.
AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.31.2011
NEW YORK -- A federal appeals court upheld the conviction and four-year prison sentence given to a former New York police commissioner who nearly beca...
Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011
March: While snow still covers side-streets in the Bronx and Staten Island, Mayor Bloomberg promises that the city will have all traces of the blizzard removed by the end of April.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Weeks before he's scheduled to report to prison, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik says he doesn't feel that he ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Disgraced former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik is showing his internet skills yet again. First he caused a stir by posting pictures of hi...
Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011
The world's most irrepressible terrorism fighter, Bernard Kerik, has found a way to blog from inside federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland, on the West Virginia border.
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.25.2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was proclaimed a hero after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
What is this thing between public officials and their drivers? Why do public officials appoint them to positions of great power and responsibility while paying so little attention to their credentials?
Deborah Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011
Cory Booker's "zero tolerance for corruption," as he put it in a press statement, should apply to lawless officers running rampant in the city as well as administration appointees on the take.
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
Bernie Kerik raked in $12 million over a 6-year period that included his glory years of national acclaim as a 9/11 hero. It's really amazing that this cheap crook and charlatan achieved such wealth and lofty position.
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.25.2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was hailed as a hero after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and near...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors say former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik should go directly to jail when he's sentenc...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, the one-time candidate for Homeland Security chief who has admitted...
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.25.2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — An angry federal judge sent former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to jail Tuesday for sharing secret pretr...
Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | Posted 05.25.2011
VALHALLA, N.Y. — Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is now just another number in the county jail. Westchester County jail spokesm...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court has rejected a request by former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to be free while he awaits his co...
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
When we reflect on things we're thankful for, do you think anybody puts New York government on the list? Nah. Nevertheless, in the spirit of the season, here's a list of public sector thank yous.
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
WABC 7's Bill Ritter pulled an Ernie Anastos Tuesday night, accidentally referring to Bernie Kerik as the "former New York City top cock." The Emmy...
Posted 05.25.2011
A whole lot less of Bernie Kerik will be reporting to prison next year. Kerik appears to be a shell of his former self in new pictures he put on hi...
Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011
Bernard Kerik is now Inmate 210-717, awaiting his corruption trial. And Rudolph Giuliani has already paid dearly for appointing Kerik -- his presidential ambitions among the toll.
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.25.2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The terror attack on the World Trade Center, which made New York City's police commissioner a national figure, cannot be br...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.12.2011