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...Americans have experienced as swift a rise and dramatic a fall as Bernard Kerik. A high school dropout who was abandoned by his mother as a toddler, Kerik became commissioner of the New York Police Department and nominee to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security before his checkered past caught up with him. On Thursday, Nov. 5, the gruff, muscle-bound 54-year-old pleaded guilty to tax fraud, making false statements and other felonies in a federal courthouse in suburban New York. The man who once oversaw the nation's largest municipal jail system - and whose name once...
...while serving as corrections commissioner; Kerik admitted accepting $165,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment from a company accused of having ties to organized crime that sought city business. He paid $221,000 in fines, and under orders from Mayor Mike Bloomberg, his name was removed from the Bernard B. Kerik Complex, a Manhattan jail, which reverted to its original name, the Manhattan Detention Complex...
...lucrative tips; one leak about a Google earnings report yielded his firm $8 million in profits in 2007, authorities said. The investigation was the first insider-trading probe to make use of wiretaps and may signal a tougher attitude toward white collar crime in the wake of the Bernard Madoff scandal...
Beevor is a skillful guide through the complex jockeying for position, sketching thumbnail portraits of the senior officers with novelistic abandon. (Of the senior British commander, the exasperating Sir Bernard Montgomery, he writes, "His self-regard was almost comical.") He is willing to be graphic, though never gratuitously so, in his descriptions of battle. Maybe the most horrific weapon on the battlefield was the white phosphorus the Allies carried. During the bitter fighting for Hill 112, an English soldier tried to slip through barbed wire under machine-gun fire. A round clipped a phosphorus grenade in his pouch and ignited...
...from all over," an attendee told a local television station. A couple weeks later, in Naples, Fla., Abadi held another "Madoff" auction at which many bidders said they could not discern whether any merchandise was from Madoff or his victims. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...