Keriks current wife is SYRIAN

[Action Jackson]

Yup. He's current wife is a Syrian Immigrant. That cracks me up. If a Democrat was head of homeland security and married to a middle eastern immigrant the conservatives would attack him. You know they would.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/261926p-224278c.html

Mrs. Kerik mum
on straying hubby

BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Bernard Kerik's future wife won his heart by arguing with him over his teeth.
Hala Matli, an immigrant from Syria, was managing a dentist's office when she found herself repeatedly sparring with a busy patient who never seemed to be able to keep an appointment.

The patient was a city correction official - namely, Kerik.

"We despised each other," Kerik wrote in his autobiography, "The Lost Son." "It was a running battle between us, me skipping appointments, her pointing out how inconsiderate I was."

But through the frosty exchanges, Kerik saw "a beautiful fair-skinned woman who was bright and sweet." The couple wound up dating and Hala Kerik, now 35, has stuck by her man ever since.

She kept a stoic silence yesterday after the Daily News reported that her husband cheated on her with two women.

Kerik, 49, wrote that one of the toughest grillings he has seen was the grilling he took from Hala's uncles, anxious to determine if he was the right man for her.
Mrs. Kerik mum
on straying hubby


He eventually proposed by getting a waiter to bring a wedding ring on a silver platter during a romantic waterside dinner.

They were married in a plush ceremony on Nov. 1, 1998, at a sumptuous New Jersey catering hall. The News reported the gala apparently was paid for by wealthy pals, but Kerik did not disclose the gift, as required.

The next summer, Kerik wrote that his new wife was acting moody during a vacation with friends in the Spanish resort island of Majorca.

When they got back, she told him she was pregnant with the first of their two daughters.

"On that day, my life felt complete," Kerik wrote.

Originally published on December 14, 2004

[Diane L]

1. Amazing that he wrote an autobiography

this guy really must think he is something.

[underpants]

2. So he can't get his act together enough to make appointments either?

Kerik is the gift that keeps on giving isn't he?

[da_chimperor]

3. God, it would have been a riot if he actually took the job

a constant stream of bad p.r. for the right wingers. I'd love every second of it right up to his resignation.

[elehhhhna]

4. and he was still married to #1 when he married this one! Plus

doing an employee and his insane (read her profile in Vanity Fair this month) book publisher...

His milkshake brings all the girls to the yard, huh?

[tk2kewl]

5. When I saw that picture while reading The News this morning

I was wondering if it was taken on Halloween. What the heck was that woman thinking with the makeup already?

[dogtag]

6. It all makes sense...multiple wives are quite the

thing in the Middle East. Clever boy, that Bernie. NOT.