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Ward, who joined the Council in March following the resignation of former Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, was the only current councillor who was not re-elected to the nine member legislative body...
...Continuing his penchant for befriending powerful people, served as Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bodyguard and driver in 1993. Giuliani appointed him a deputy city corrections commissioner in 1995 and corrections commissioner in 1998, where he became known for making unannounced visits to cell blocks at 2 a.m. and successfully lowered inmate violence and sick-day abuse by guards. (Read "Can a New York Cop Tame Baghdad...
...Appointed police commissioner in 2000 by Mayor Giuliani, despite concerns from many aides about Kerik's reputation for flouting rules and his lack of a college degree - a requirement for senior police officers. Along with Giuliani, he won national praise for his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He stepped down from the NYPD when Giuliani left office at the end of 2001 and joined Giuliani's consulting firm, where he reportedly earned millions, and published a best-selling memoir in 2001, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice...
...pleaded guilty to misdemeanor ethics violations committed 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...
...Munley, who worked as a police officer for five years in North Carolina (where her father Dennis Barbour once served as mayor of Carolina Beach), is a talented shooter on the Special Reaction Team, which trains for the possibility of events like the Nov. 5 shooting rampage. She is a passionate fan of Twitter, and once news of her actions spread, her followers began to blossom in number - among them country singer Dierks Bentley, who posed for a photo with the petite officer at the fort's annual July Fourth FreedomFest. The photo is posted on her Twitter page, along...