Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs

[kskiska]

(snip)

The two men sat upstairs and shared a bottle of red wine, a gift to the mayor from Nelson Mandela. Mr. Giuliani said he planned to appoint Mr. Kerik as first deputy correction commissioner.

Mr. Kerik, who wrote of this in his autobiography, “The Lost Son,” was taken aback; he was a year removed from being a police detective.

“Mayor, I appreciate your confidence in me, I really do,” he said. “But I ran a jail. One jail. Rikers is like 10 jails.”

Just do it, the mayor replied.

Mr. Kerik followed Mr. Giuliani downstairs to a dimly lighted room. There waited Mr. Giuliani’s boyhood chum Peter J. Powers, who was first deputy mayor, and other aides. One by one, they pulled Mr. Kerik close and kissed his cheek.

“I wonder if he noticed how much becoming part of his team resembled becoming part of a mafia family,” Mr. Kerik wrote. “I was being made.”



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[soothsayer]

1. I wonder if a crow was watching Kerik from the window well...

[Doctor_J]

2. "missed warning signs"??? what a load of crap

A Ghouliani administration would be just as corrupt as a * admin. He's a sleazy, lying, adulterous crook.

[mwb970]

3. Giuliani has even worse judgment than bush!

I can't imagine that we will end up with Rudy as president. But then, I couldn't imagine ending up with bush either, and look what happened.

[tom_paine]

4. I am sure that was just a coincidence, that's all.

I wodner, for all of NineElevenani's "high profile" Mafia arrests, how many of those benefiotted the remaining Mafia bosses?

Perhaps 9/11ani was doing their dirty work for them, as Lucky Luciano asserted "Criminal Crusader" and Bushie Thomas E. Dewey had done. Luciano even had mobster Dutch Schultz killed for wanting to kill Dewey.

Now, there may be an alternate explanation for this, but it is amazing how patterns in Bushie behavior keep popping up again and again and again through the generations.