thinkprogress.org — Like Scooter Libby and Tom DeLay before him, former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is using his indictment as a tool to fundraise from the right-wing base. The New York Post writes, "Disgraced former top cop Bernard Kerik is hitting up his loyal cronies to help pay off his legal expenses."
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Kerik - the "right man" for the job in Iraq prepared for his job by watching A&E biographies on Saddam Hussein.
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Ellis Henican writes in Newsday:"But I’m still a little confused about why Bernard Kerik needs money from me. The man lives in a mansion in New Jersey. He got that $4.4 million stock bonanza for sitting on the Taser board.How’s Bernie so broke? He’s barely paid for his first cup of coffee, and since he left city government in 2003, he’s been positively raking it in."He’s been a partner in at least two highly lucrative security firms, one with Rudy Giuliani and one that he ran. Like giant vacuum cleaners, he and Rudy have been sucking huge fees from corporations and foreign governments eager to hear tough-guy 9/11 anecdotes.And the man needs a hundred bucks from me?"