Giuliani Defends Kerik: He Gets Results, Dammit!

He actually backed this guy for homeland security chief.

Kerik is a LONG time friend if Rudi. I remember a interview I saw with Kerik a few years ago. They showed him outside his house that had to be $800,000-$900,000 with about $300,000 worth of cars in his driveway. I thought "Gee. Now THERE is a $150,000 Chief of Police that REALLY knows how to stretch his money."

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As per the line in the original Pink Panther when Inspecter Clouseau is asked how he could afford to buy his wife diamonds and furs on his rather meager salary he stated she bought them out of the household money. When pressed further showing the extreme cost of such items he stated she was very frugal. Maybe Kerik's wife is just very frugal and they don't eat out much.

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I lived in NYC and travel back about twice a year. Rudy did an okay job of cleaning up some of the wealthiest neighborhoods but he was mostly an attention whore. He knew what was up with Kerik when he pushed for him to be chief of Homeland Security. Oh and in some of the bouroughs he took guns from responsible people whose neighborhood he did not bother to "claen up" because of 20 year old convictions even though they had been law abiding citizens for 20 years just so his corrupt and rich friends were safe and his street he was okay. He also used city structures to promote a company owned by his mistress without advertising charges. This is a power hungry dishonest and not real smart person. If he is elected for president only God can help us .


If he is president maybe he and some of his buddies can do celebrity tours of high security zones and make some extra millions and then claim he was "there" as much as the military. What a putz of a person.

YouTube - Jerry Hauer sets the record straight on Rudy Giuliani's lies

This is just one of 14 people who testify that Rudy badgered and bucked all advice on the command center until he got his way. Rudy wanted it in wtc 7 in the rich lower Manhatten neighborhood and he fucked up royally and now he lies about it. He should never mention 9/11 because he was a failure who used it as a media blitz and opportunity for himself.

Is it any wonder that firefighters, resue workers, 9/11 family victim members and security officials are coming out against Rudy's idiocy.Video: The REAL Rudy: Command Center

Note to Jack Robinson: Get your LIPS off the Liberals ASSES, especially Hillary the Loon and Baby Face Bill, Dixie Mafia members, or do you prefer the lovely Breck Girl??

Rudy did NOT defend his actions, he merely stated the guy did a good job in NYC...get over it, Rudy is going to clean the Liberal Commies asses, the Traitor fucking Leftist pricks!!!

Good Lord, they're both scumbags, who else ya got?

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Bernard Kerik,made $6.2 million by exercising stock options he received from a company that sold stun guns to the department — and seeks more business with it.Taser International was one of many companies that received consulting advice from Kerik after he left his job as New York City police commissioner in 2001, when he was earning $150,500 a year. Kerik remains on Taser's board of directors.Partnering with former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and also operating independently, Kerik has had business arrangements with manufacturers of prescription drugs, computer software and bulletproof materials, as well as companies selling nuclear power, telephone service, insurance and security advice for Americans working abroad.

Kerik and other former New York City officials joined the ex-mayor in Giuliani Partners, a consulting firm. In 2003, Kerik became chief executive officer of an affiliate consulting company, Giuliani-Kerik. Many of the clients needed security expertise.
Michael Hess, senior managing director of Giuliani Partners, said Kerik will be severed from Giuliani Partners and Giuliani-Kerik shortly. Neither company has federal contracts and neither does lobbying work, said Hess, a New York corporation counsel under Giuliani.


Taser International President Tom Smith, in an interview, said the company has sold Homeland Security between 300 and 500 Taser guns, which fire an electrical charge that disables a person. He said the cost was about $1,000 each, including holsters, batteries and cartridges.
"We're obviously hoping for further expansion," Smith said. "I don't see how it's going to be a conflict because he will be retiring from the board. I'm sure we're going to get questions, but I don't expect we'll get preferential treatment."


Smith said he doubts that competition for future contracts would be possible, since Taser is the only major manufacturer of the stun guns now used by some 6,000 law enforcement agencies.
Taser's chief executive officer, Patrick Smith, said Kerik has been a speaker for Taser at law enforcement conferences, presented checks on behalf of the company to families of fallen police officers and advised Taser on making sales presentations to police chiefs.
According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Scottsdale, Ariz., company, Kerik exercised his options and sold stock in November 2003 for $913,500. He made another sale last month for $5.85 million, for a total of $6.76 million, benefiting from a huge increase in the value of Taser stock during the period when he held the options.
The SEC records show that Kerik's price for the options — counting both sales — was $567,838, giving him a profit of $6.2 million.
Kerik, who began on the company board in May 2002, also was compensated at the rate of $5,000 a year for participating in board meetings.


Brant Galloway, a spokesman for the company, declined to disclose Kerik's compensation as a director, a consultant and as chairman of the firm's compensation committee, which approves salary adjustments for senior executives.
Kerik has played a key security consultant's role for a number of Kerik and Giuliani clients. Among them:
Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin. Kerik helped the company improve security at two manufacturing plants after it experienced employee theft and found that additional security measurers were needed for the highly regulated drug. Kerik worked to improve the capacity of safes to secure the product, upgrade camera surveillance and install other security measures.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry association that opposes importation of medicine from Canada and elsewhere. Kerik visited ports, reviewed prescription drug Internet sites and helped prepare a report for the industry on dangers of importation. He told a government task force in April that allowing imports could invite terrorists to purchase drugs legally and use them in a biological attack
Entergy Nuclear Northeast, operator of five nuclear power plants. Kerik and others helped ensure the plants were operated with state-of-the-art security.

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