From The Associated Press, 7/2/06:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2146493
Kerik's Name Removed From New York Jail
Ex-New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's Name Pulled From
Jail After Guilty Plea
NEW YORK (AP)--
A city jail renamed to honor former police commissioner Bernard Kerik
in 2001 has resurrected its previous name after he pleaded guilty to
charges of taking gifts from construction firm.
Workers removed the sign from the Bernard B. Kerik Complex in lower
Manhattan early Sunday and replaced it with one bearing a familiar
name Manhattan Detention Complex, correction spokesman Michael Saucier
said.
Kerik pleaded guilty last week to taking $165,000 in renovations on
his apartment from Interstate Industrial Corp. a company that was
trying to do business with the city and failing to report a $28,000
loan from a real estate developer.
Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
approved changing the Manhattan Detention Complex's name to honor
Kerik, who also had been correction commissioner.
In 2004, President Bush nominated Kerik to be the head of the
Department of Homeland Security, but the nomination was withdrawn amid
ethics questions.
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But, like most Republicans, the crook escapes jail time.
Harry
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