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...Giuliani would go on to name Kerik his top corrections officer, then his police commissioner and eventually his business partner when the city-hall years came to an end. The two were inseparable for the better part of a decade. Now Kerik, 52, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking bribes from businessmen with possible Mob ties and could face up to 20 years in prison and fines that could top several million dollars. Giuliani faces a different test: Could his reputation as a crime-busting prosecutor and mayor be unraveled by a handpicked police chief...
...worth remembering that choosing a police chief was a mission-critical task for a mayor of New York City. The call was the most important Giuliani had to make. And so the choice of Kerik and the relationship between the two men raise legitimate questions about how Giuliani would perform as commander in chief: Does he choose his team members for their competence or for their obedience? Does he prize loyalty at the expense of ethics? Or does he now see in his relationship with Kerik clear lessons about how he rewarded and promoted those around him? For Giuliani...
...Kerik never fit the profile of most other members in Giuliani's posse. While they spent their 20s and 30s attending prestigious colleges and law schools, Kerik was facing tests they couldn't imagine. He was born in Newark, N.J., to an alcoholic father and a street-walking mother. His parents drifted to Ohio in the 1950s and separated when he was 2. His mother left Kerik in the care of a new boyfriend's mother until his father turned up after a few months and rescued him. He never saw his mother again. After high school, Kerik joined...
...Kerik worked his way slowly up the NYPD food chain, as both a uniformed and a plainclothes cop. He earned a reputation as flashy, intense, sometimes emotional and usually effective. "I was booming doors, chasing the Cali cartel, getting into gunfights and doing all kinds of crazy stuff," he once recalled. At the funeral of a cop in 1989 he met Giuliani, and the two bonded after Kerik became the candidate's weekend driver during the 1993 campaign. "Look," Kerik told Giuliani at the time, "you're going to spend the next two years in your...
...Sure, Rudy." The Sure-Rudys weren't very smart, a former assistant said, but they would reliably tell Giuliani he was right. Giuliani forced out his innovative police commissioner William Bratton in 1996 after Bratton seemed to like the media spotlight too much for Giuliani's taste. But Kerik was loyal above all and ruled the sometimes lawless corrections operations with an iron fist. In 2000 Giuliani handed Kerik the 100-year-old solid-gold badge and named him New York's 40th commissioner of police...