NYT: Apt Said to Have Been Scene of Kerik Affair (BR overlooks Gr. Zero)

[DeepModem Mom]

Apartment Said to Have Been Scene of a Kerik Affair
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Published: December 15, 2004


An apartment in Battery Park City that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik secured for his personal use after Sept. 11 was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping at ground zero, according to a real estate executive who has been briefed about the apartment.

After the cleanup had settled into a routine that fall, the executive said, Mr. Kerik, who was still police commissioner, asked to rent the two-bedroom apartment for his own use. During his use of the apartment, Mr. Kerik and Judith Regan engaged in an extramarital affair there, according to someone who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the relationship. Ms. Regan published his best-selling autobiography in 2001....

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After taking the apartment, Mr. Kerik, who is married with two children and lived at the time in Riverdale, the Bronx, began to meet there with Ms. Regan, said the person who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the matter.

That person said that one bedroom faced the pit of ground zero, and that Ms. Regan visited it while Mr. Kerik was police commissioner, meaning between Sept. 11 and Dec. 31, 2001. Mr. Kerik refused to answer any questions yesterday regarding the apartment....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/nyregion/15apartment.html

[slor]

1. What a perverse...

jackass!

On edit: This little vignette of a sexual love nest overlooking the scene from 9/11, almost perfectly encapsulates how this administration used this tragedy for their own sordid purposes, and at our expense.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. God... that IS sick shit!

Penetrating one "hole" while overlooking another.

Bernie Kerik is one ill man...:puke:

[saigon68]

5. LOL

[izzie]

2. Why didn't Bush give this guy the "Freedom Award"?????

All evil people Bush 's pals.

[bklyncowgirl]

3. Lovely, what a hero

Guy's screwing his publisher in an apartment that was donated to rescue workers.

Obviously once it was no longer needed the city should have turned the apartment back to its owner with deepest gratitude instead of turning it into Bernie's personal love shack.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Kicking this latest outrage for the Coast -- nt

[mslux]

7. Extramarital Affair?

Hellfire and damnation. That's ADULTERY!

[RamboLiberal]

8. Kinda fun today to read the trashy NY Post and Daily News

BAD BERNIE'S LIVID MISTRESS: 'HE'S INSANE & MANIACAL'

WHEN titian-haired publish ing titan Judith Regan took up with former top cop Bernard Kerik, she thought she'd met her match. And vice versa.

But the illicit relationship came tumbling down, a friend of Regan's told me, not when she discovered her married lover had another mistress. It ended horribly after Regan learned Kerik's wife was pregnant.

After that jolting discovery, Regan — as volatile, driven and foul-mouthed as any man — began using other words to describe her lover.

"He's maniacal. Insane," a terrified Regan confided in a pal. Kerik, she said, had Regan followed to Los Angeles. He showed up at her house. Threatened her.

http://www.nypost.com/commentary/32781.htm

How does someone who's flat broke afford a sumptuous renovation of two Riverdale apartments? Ask Bernard Kerik.

In 1999, Kerik had workers convert two first-floor apartments into one large home at the W. 239th St. building - even though he apparently was having trouble making ends meet in a single apartment upstairs.

Months earlier, Kerik could not even pay for his November 1998 wedding reception, relying on his best man and another friend to cover much of the tab, the Daily News revealed Sunday.

Despite his struggles, Kerik, then the city's Correction Department commissioner, managed to buy the two Bronx apartments in early 1999 - and then swung the costly renovation.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/262247p-224543c.html

:tinfoilhat: I'm wondering if this is Rove's scheming to take Rudy down a couple of pegs and make him vulnerable for Jebbie or another Repuke running in '08.

[a_random_joel]

9. I hope they weren't listening to "Love is in the air"

There are no words that can describe this behavior...

[yellowcanine]

10. Damn! Too bad this shit didn't come out after he was confirmed. But

it is still a ton of fun. Way to go Bernie!