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|name = Bernie Kerik
|image = BernardKerik.JPG
|office = [[Ministry of Interior (Iraq)|Minister of the Interior of Iraq]]<br>{{small|Acting}}
|1blankname = Chief Executive
|1namedata = [[Paul Bremer]]
|term_start = May 18, 2003
|term_end = September 2, 2003
|predecessor = [[Mahmud Dhiyab]]
|successor = [[Nuri Badran]]
|office1 = [[New York City Police Commissioner|Police Commissioner of New York City]]
|appointer1 = [[Rudy Giuliani]]
|term_start1 = August 21, 2000
|term_end1 = December 31, 2001
|predecessor1 = [[Howard Safir]]
|successor1 = [[Raymond Kelly]]
|office2 = Correction Commissioner of the [[New York City Department of Correction]]
|appointer2 = [[Rudy Giuliani]]
|term_start2 = 1998
|term_end2 = 2000
|predecessor2 = Michael Jacobsen
|successor2 = Gary Lanigan
|birth_name = Bernard Bailey Kerik
|birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1955|9|4}}}}
|birth_place = [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], [[New Jersey]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse = Linda Hales {{small|(1978–1983)}}<br>Jaqueline Llerena {{small|(1983–1992)}}<br>Hala Matli {{small|(1998–present)}}
|children = 4
|education = [[Empire State College]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])}}
|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}
|branch = {{army|United States}}
|serviceyears = 1974–1977
}}
'''Bernard Bailey Kerik''' (born September 4, 1955) is an American former [[police officer]], consultant and convicted felon, who served as [[New York City Police Commissioner]] from 2000 to 2001, and [[New York City]]'s Correction Department Commissioner and First Deputy, overseeing the [[New York City]] jail system, from 1995 to 2000.
Kerik was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. He served in the [[United States Army]] from 1974 to 1977 before working various law enforcement jobs in the United States and abroad. Joining the [[New York City Police Department|New York Police Department]] (NYPD) in 1986, Kerik is most well known for his time at the NYPD and [[New York City Department of Correction]], as he served in commissioner positions for both city agencies. Kerik's tenure as police commissioner included overseeing the police response to the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001.
Following the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], President [[George W. Bush]] appointed Kerik as the [[interior minister]] of the Iraqi [[Coalition Provisional Authority]]. In 2004, Bush nominated Kerik to be the head of the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]]. However, Kerik soon withdrew his candidacy, explaining that he had employed an [[Illegal immigration|illegal immigrant]] as a [[nanny]]. His withdrawal resulted in state and federal investigations as a result of which in 2006 Kerik pleaded guilty in Bronx Supreme Court to two unrelated ethics violations (unclassified misdemeanors) and was ordered to pay $221,000 in fines. Kerik then pleaded guilty in 2009 in the Southern District of New York to eight federal charges, including tax fraud and false statements, and on February 18, 2010, was sentenced to four years in federal prison.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/former_nyc_top_cop_bernard_ker.html |title=Former N.Y.C. top cop Bernard Kerik gets four years in federal prison |date=February 18, 2010 |website=New Jersey On-Line }}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Kerik was born in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], [[New Jersey]], the son of Patricia Joann (Bailey) and Donald Raymond Kerik Sr. His paternal grandfather emigrated from [[Russia]] to a [[coal]]-mining town in Pennsylvania and changed his surname from Kapurik to Kerik.<ref name="bookref1">{{cite book|last=Kerik|first=Bernard B.|authorlink=|title=The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice|publisher=Harper|date=September 2002|location=|pages=18–20|url=|isbn=0060508825}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2000/09/06/2000-09-06__kerik_a_veteran_of_mean_str.html |location=New York |work=Daily News |title=KERIK A VETERAN OF MEAN STREETS A career forged in fighting crime |date=September 6, 2000 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604100124/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2000/09/06/2000-09-06__kerik_a_veteran_of_mean_str.html |archivedate=June 4, 2011 }}</ref> Kerik was raised [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] and grew up in [[Paterson, New Jersey]]. He attended [[Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey)|Eastside High School]] in Paterson, and dropped out in 1972. In July 1974, he enlisted in the [[United States Army]] and received a [[General Educational Development]] (GED) certificate from the State of [[North Carolina]] while assigned to [[Fort Bragg (North Carolina)|Fort Bragg]], [[North Carolina]] .
After leaving the New York City Police Department, he received a B.S. in social theory, social structure and change, from (ESC) [[Empire State College]] of the [[State University of New York]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thekerikgroup.com/about-us.html|title=About Us|website=THE KERIK GROUP LLC|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
==Career==
===Military===
From 1974 to 1977, Kerik served in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Military Police Corps (United States)|Military Police Corps]]. He was [[United States Forces Korea|stationed in Korea]] as a [[military police]] sentry dog handler and to the [[XVIII Airborne Corps]] at [[Fort Bragg (North Carolina)|Fort Bragg]] in [[North Carolina]], assuming [[military police]] duties and teaching [[hand-to-hand combat]] to [[special operations]] and [[Special Forces (United States Army)|Special Forces]] personnel at the [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4065105.stm|title=Profile: Bernard Kerik|date=22 October 2009|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
===Private sector===
Kerik was [[Military discharge|honorably discharged]] from the army in July 1977 and worked briefly for the Interstate Revenue Research Center, [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], as an investigator before joining the [[Washington Group International|Morrison Knudsen]] Saudi Arabia Consortium (MKSAC) in April 1978, where he was employed as a security officer at the [[King Khalid Military City]] in [[Hafar Al-Batin]], [[Saudi Arabia]], for nearly two-and-a-half years. Upon his return, he worked for the [[Cumberland County, North Carolina|Cumberland County]], [[North Carolina]] sheriff's office, in the patrol division and later for the City–County Bureau of Narcotics.
===Law enforcement===
[[File:Landfill.9.01.jpg|thumb|right|Kerik at press conference concerning crime scene evidence collection from the WTC site in 2001]]
[[File:Rudy Giuliani at a NYFPC briefing.jpg|thumb|right|Kerik at the NYFPC briefing on "New York City - 1 Year After 9/11" with [[Rudy Giuliani]], [[Richard James Sheirer|Richard Sheirer]], and [[Thomas Von Essen]] in 2002]]
From December 1981 to October 1982 and then July 1984 to July 1986, Kerik worked at the [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]] sheriff's office, in [[New Jersey]]. He served as the department's training officer and commander of the special weapons and operations, and ultimately chief and warden of the Passaic County jail.
Kerik worked from 1982 to 1984 as chief of investigations for the security division of the [[King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre|King Faisal Specialist Hospital]] in [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]]. Six members of the hospital security staff, including Kerik, were fired and deported after an investigation in 1984 by the Saudi secret police.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45175-2004Dec7 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |title=Kerik's Surveillance Activity in Saudi Arabia Is Disputed |first1=John |last1=Mintz |first2=Lucy |last2=Shackelford |date=December 8, 2004 |accessdate=April 26, 2010}}</ref>
In July 1986, Kerik joined the [[New York City Police Department]] and was assigned to uniformed and plain-clothes duty in the 14th Precinct in Brooklyn and in the Midtown South patrol sector (Times Square). He was later transferred to the narcotics division as an [[Undercover operation|undercover]] in [[Harlem]], [[East Harlem|Spanish Harlem]], and [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] and was promoted to detective in September 1990. In 1991 he was assigned to the [[United States Department of Justice]], New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, Group T-43 until he was transferred to the Intelligence Division in February 1994, where he worked on the protective detail for then-mayor [[Rudy Giuliani|Rudolph W. Giuliani]].
In May 1994, Kerik was appointed to the [[New York City Department of Correction]] as the director of the Investigations Division and was later transferred to the commissioner's office as executive assistant to the commissioner, and in January 1995 he was appointed by Mayor Giuliani as the first deputy commissioner of the department.
In January 1998, Kerik became commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction. As corrections commissioner, he was responsible for an annual budget of $835 million, a civilian and uniformed workforce of 13,000, and 133,000 annual inmate admissions in the department's 16 jails, 15 court detention pens, and four hospital prison wards, including [[Rikers Island]].
He was credited with the creation of the Total Efficiency Accountability Management System (TEAMS), a management analysis and accountability program that placed as a finalist for the [[Harvard University]]'s [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] Award, for Innovations in American Government for year 2000. Through TEAMS, the department witnessed historic performance gains in virtually all areas of jail operations as a result of many new initiatives in violence reduction, overtime reduction, modernization of security equipment, an absence rate analysis program, and others.<ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_why_the_jails.html Why the Jails Didn't Explode] by Frank Straub, Paul E. O'Connell, ''City Journal'' Spring 1999</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/jailhouse_knife_attacks_slashed_izMC7ic9vaYNcmne1jpA3L |work=New York Post |title=Jailhouse Knife Attacks Slashed; Reforms Cut City's Inmate Violence – Exclusive |first=Al |last=Guart |date=September 8, 1998 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606125956/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/jailhouse_knife_attacks_slashed_izMC7ic9vaYNcmne1jpA3L |archivedate=June 6, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
During his tenure, the department developed a [[Gang intelligence unit]] and gang tracking database, networking with local, state, and federal authorities across the country. Inmate violence—defined as inmate-on-inmate stabbing and slashing incidents—were reduced by 93 percent from FY 1995 to FY 1999. Similarly, overtime spending in FY 1999 decreased 45 percent from FY 1995 and the uniform sick rate dropped for the same period by 25 percent. These achievements occurred during a period when the inmate population rose to record levels, from 110,410 admissions in FY 1994 to 133,000 in FY 1999, a 25 percent increase.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/jails_chief_inmates_working_miracles_s2zuVbIqP0W2EO429MnbZM |work=New York Post |title=Jails Chief Is Working Miracles: Morale Rising Among Guards And Inmates |first=Al |last=Guart |date=May 7, 1999}}</ref>
In December 1997, he was also appointed by the mayor to the New York City [[Gaming control board|Gambling Control Commission]].
Giuliani appointed Kerik the 40th [[New York City Police Commissioner|Police Commissioner of New York City]] on August 21, 2000.
Giuliani gave much of the credit for a drop in 2001 crime to Kerik, saying that "Commissioner Kerik took over a police department that was leading the country in crime declines, and somehow he was able to figure out how to create even more crime reduction and to do that against a national trend in which crime is going up in much of the rest of the country." Known in the department as the "beat-cop commissioner," Kerik frequently cruised the city at night with a security detail composed of cops who had been in shootouts, dangled from rooftops, hit by bullets, raced into burning buildings, and seen their partners die.<ref>{{cite news |first=Al |last=Guart |title=Heroes of Kerik's Police Posse |newspaper=New York Post |date=March 5, 2001 |url=http://www.thekerikgroup.com/uploads/2/3/6/2/23625642/ny_post_-_heroes_of__keriks_police_posse.pdf |type=pdf, The Kerik Group}}</ref> During his time as police commissioner he made five arrests, including one involving two ex-convicts—one a paroled killer, wanted for a carjacking at gunpoint in Virginia—for allegedly driving a stolen van in [[Harlem]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/26/nyregion/for-kerik-there-s-one-way-to-run-the-police-at-a-sprint.html?scp=7&sq=kerik&st=nyt |work=The New York Times |title=For Kerik, There's One Way To Run the Police, at a Sprint |first=Kevin |last=Flynn |date=March 26, 2001 |accessdate=April 26, 2010}}</ref> As police commissioner, Kerik served on the terrorism committee with the [[International Association of Chiefs of Police]] and the Criminal Justice Advisory Board for [[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]].
Kerik was serving as police commissioner during the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Post-9/11 report recommends police, fire response changes |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-19-nypd-nyfd-report_x.htm |date=August 19, 2002 |agency=Associated Press |work=USA Today |accessdate=May 23, 2008}}</ref> He was in his office when [[American Airlines Flight 11]] hit the North Tower. He arrived at the base of the North Tower three minutes before [[United Airlines Flight 175]] hit the South Tower, showering him and his staff with debris as Giuliani, Kerik, and their top aides were trapped inside a building at 75 Barclay Street.<ref>http://www.thekerikgroup.com/uploads/2/3/6/2/23625642/giuliani_and_kerik_dodge_death.pdf</ref> Kerik served 16 months as commissioner, leaving office at the end of Giuliani's term on December 31, 2001.
===Return to private sector===
Following his departure from the [[New York City Police Department]], he was employed by [[Giuliani Partners]], a consulting firm formed by the former [[Mayor of New York City|mayor of New York]], [[Rudy Giuliani|Rudolph Giuliani]]. He served as a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners and as [[chief executive officer]] of Giuliani–Kerik LLC, an affiliate of Giuliani Partners. Kerik resigned from these positions in December 2004. In March 2005 he created The Kerik Group LLC, where he served as chairman until June 2009, consulting in crisis management and risk mitigation, counterterrorism and law enforcement, and jail/prison management strategies. He has served as an adviser and consultant to His Majesty [[Abdullah II of Jordan|King Abdullah II]] of the [[Jordan|Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]] and to President Bharrat Jagdeo of the Republic of Guyana.<ref>[http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000056/005609.htm Caribbean Net News: Kerik finally gets Guyana contract] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622064358/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000056/005609.htm |date=June 22, 2008 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/wealth/Bernie_Kerik_Wont_Fold.php www.rodale.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103175205/http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/wealth/Bernie_Kerik_Wont_Fold.php |date=January 3, 2010 }}</ref> He has overseen threat and vulnerability assessments for a ruling family in the [[United Arab Emirates]] and has also worked on crime reduction and national security strategies in [[Trinidad & Tobago]]<ref>[http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000049/004976.htm Caribbean Net News: US crime fighter visits Trinidad for talks with local officials] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830075759/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000049/004976.htm |date=2008-08-30 }}</ref> and [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thekerikgroup.com|title=THE KERIK GROUP LLC|website=THE KERIK GROUP LLC|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref>
===Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq===
In May 2003, during [[Iraq War|Operation Iraqi Freedom]], Kerik was appointed by the [[George W. Bush]] administration as interim Interior Minister of [[Iraq]] and senior policy adviser to U.S. presidential envoy to Iraq, [[Paul Bremer]]. When Kerik arrived in Iraq the Ministry of Interior did not exist, having collapsed and dissolved during the U.S.–led coalition's invasion of Iraq. Kerik was responsible for restructuring and rebuilding the ministry and all its constituent parts: the national police, intelligence service, and border and customs police, as well as choosing the officials who would take control of these institutions when he left. Prior to Kerik's departure from Iraq on September 2, 2003,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/kerik_close_call_ex_city_top_cop_MyT1W1vMZ4rw2rocTkaHeJ |work=New York Post |title=Kerik Close Call: Ex-City Top Cop Dodges Baghdad Bomb |first=Al |last=Guart |date=September 3, 2003}}</ref> more than 35,000 Iraqi police were reinstated, 35 police stations were stood up in Baghdad with several more around the country, the senior deputy interior ministers were appointed, and the newly established governing council appointed the first Iraqi minister of interior, post–Saddam Hussein, [[Nuri Badran]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/guiding_iraq_effort_road_to_recovery_IEzqJQvXQ569z1xrDQVDbM/2 |work=New York Post |title=Guiding Iraq On A Road To Recovery: Experts & Officials Grade Postwar Effort |first=Niles |last=Lathem |date=August 3, 2003 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014012635/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/guiding_iraq_effort_road_to_recovery_IEzqJQvXQ569z1xrDQVDbM/2 |archivedate=October 14, 2012 |df= }}</ref> A [[United Nations]] UNODC fact-finding mission report dated May 18, 2003 at the beginning of his term, noted that Kerik's team made "positive interventions in a number of areas."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/world/after-war-law-enforcement-us-struggles-transform-tainted-iraqi-police-force.html?pagewanted=1 |work=The New York Times |title=AFTER THE WAR: LAW ENFORCEMENT; U.S. Struggles to Transform A Tainted Iraqi Police Force |first=Amy |last=Waldman |date=June 30, 2003 |accessdate=April 26, 2010}}</ref>
During his tenure as Interior Minister of Iraq Bernard Kerik secretly accepted and failed to report a $250,000 interest free "loan" from Israeli billionaire Eitan Wertheimer, a gift later determined to be a bribe for which he was indicted by the US federal government and sentenced to prison. Precisely what Wertheimer expected to receive in return for the money is an open question.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|title=Kerik Loan Activity Is Brought to Light After Indictment|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/nyregion/24kerik.html}}</ref>
===Nomination as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security===
[[File:George W. Bush and Bernard Kerik.jpg|thumb|right|[[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] announcing Kerik's nomination to be the [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|Secretary of Homeland Security]] in 2004]]
On December 3, 2004, Kerik was nominated by President Bush to succeed [[Tom Ridge]] as [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security]]. [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[Alberto Gonzales]] vetted Kerik during that nomination period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0744 |title=No Skeletons in My Closet! |accessdate=2007-11-09 |work=Village Voice }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> But on December 10, after a week of press scrutiny, Kerik withdrew acceptance of the nomination. Kerik stated that he had unknowingly hired an undocumented worker as a nanny and housekeeper.<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Mike|title=On Kerik Nomination, White House Missed Red Flags|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64738-2004Dec14?language=printer|newspaper=Washington Post|date=December 15, 2004|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216004432/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6716363/|archivedate=December 16, 2004}}</ref> Similar violations of [[immigration law]] had previously caused the withdrawal of the nominations of [[Linda Chavez]] as [[United States Secretary of Labor|secretary of labor]] by [[George W. Bush]] and of [[Zoë Baird]] and [[Kimba Wood]] for [[United States Attorney General|attorney general]] by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]].
Shortly after withdrawing his name from consideration, Kerik became the target of a New York State grand jury investigation by the Bronx District Attorney's Office, and later, the United States Attorney's Office.
==State and federal investigation, federal indictment, and conviction==
After an 18-month-long [[grand jury]] investigation conducted by [[the Bronx]] District Attorney's Office, Kerik pleaded guilty in Bronx Supreme Court on June 30, 2006 to two ethics violations (unclassified misdemeanors). Kerik acknowledged that during the time he was Interior Minister of Iraq, he accepted a $250,000 interest-free "loan" from Israeli billionaire Eitan Wertheimer and failed to report it. Kerik first met the billionaire, whose vast holdings include major defense contractors, when Kerik took a four-day trip to Israel less than two weeks before September 11, 2001 to discuss counter-terrorism with Israeli officials.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1">{{cite news|title=Billionaire Businessman Gave Kerik $250K "Loan"|publisher=Talking Points Memo|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/img-src-http-talkingpointsmemo-com-images-bush-kerik-lawn-muck-jpg-vspace-5-hspace-5-align-left-billionaire-businessman-gave-kerik-250k-loan}}</ref>
On November 8, 2007, Kerik was indicted by a federal [[grand jury]] in [[White Plains, New York]] on charges of [[tax fraud]], and [[making false statements]] to the federal government about the $250,000 he received from Wertheimer. Prosecutors further accused Kerik of receiving about $236,000 from New York real estate mogul Steven C. Witkoff between 2001 and 2003.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/> Some of the New York charges were dropped in December 2008, but Kerik was then re-indicted on the same charges in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/27/new.york.kerik.indicted/index.html|title=Former NYPD commissioner Kerik indicted |accessdate=2009-05-27 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>
On November 5, 2009, Kerik pleaded guilty to eight felony tax and false statement charges,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/nyregion/06kerik.html|title=Kerik Confesses to Cheating I.R.S. and Telling Lies}}</ref> and was sentenced to forty-eight months in federal prison and three years' supervised release ([[probation]]). Mr. Kerik was represented in the matter by notable NYC Criminal Defense Attorney, [[Michael F. Bachner]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dolnik|first1=Sam|title=Kerik Is Sentenced in Corruption Case|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/nyregion/19kerik.html?_r=0|accessdate=13 June 2017|work=The New York Times|agency=The New York Times Company|issue=NY/Region|publisher=The New York Times Company|date=February 18, 2010}}</ref> He surrendered to the U.S. minimum security prison camp in [[Cumberland, Maryland]], on May 17, 2010. He was discharged from federal custody on October 15, 2013, after serving five months' home confinement, and his supervised release concluded in October 2016.
==Awards and honors==
[[File:Bernard Kerik (13001046024).jpg|thumb|right|Kerik at [[Conservative Political Action Conference|CPAC]] in 2014]]
Kerik earned 30 medals for excellent, meritorious, and heroic service, including the [[New York City Police Department Medal for Valor]] for his involvement in a gun battle in which his partner was shot and wounded and he and his team members returned fire, downing the suspect. Other medals included 1 Honorable Mention, 5 Commendations, 10 Meritorious Police Duty, and 13 Excellent Police Duty medals.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} As a result of his work on and in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, he was honored by Her Majesty [[Queen Elizabeth II]] with an honorary appointment as Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire|Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]] (CBE).<ref>http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/486d3b6ce35096fcfee26754994a2b07</ref>
Kerik has received [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorates]] from [[Michigan State University]], [[New York Institute of Technology]], [[Manhattanville College]], [[College of New Rochelle]], and [[Iona College (New York)|Iona College]], and he received the President's Medal from [[Hunter College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.msu.edu/story/2408/&keyword_search=speakers&keyword_action=exact_phrase|title=MSU's commencement speakers exemplars of service to nation, world - MSU News - Michigan State University|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref><ref>[http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/newsreleases/2002/commencement_jan_2002.html Hunter Headlines — Hunter College]</ref>
==Personal life==
Kerik's first child was born in October 1975 when he was 20 and serving in South Korea as a military policeman. In February 1976, Kerik completed his tour of duty in South Korea and left mother and daughter behind. In his autobiography, Kerik called the episode "a mistake I will always regret, and I pray to God that one day I can make it right."{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}
Kerik has been married three times. His first marriage was in August 1978; he and his wife were divorced in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2004/12/secret-wife.html|title=THE NEWS BLOG|website=stevegilliard.blogspot.com|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref> Kerik's second marriage lasted from September 1983 to July 1992; the marriage produced a son. Kerik's third marriage took place in 1998, and the couple had two daughters.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/11/cst.01.html |title=CNN Live Saturday |accessdate=2007-11-09 |publisher=CNN.com |date=December 11, 2004}}</ref>
In 2001 Kerik published a memoir, ''The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice'', a ''[[The New York Times]]'' best-seller.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/bernard_b_kerik/index.html?inline=nyt-per |title=Bernard B. Kerik |date=October 12, 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-09 |work=The New York Times |first1=Russ |last1=Buettner |first2=Stacey |last2=Stowe}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/nyregion/sad-search-kerik-find-his-mother-family-secret-revealed-autobiography.html?scp=2&sq=kerik&st=nyt |work=The New York Times |title=Sad Search By Kerik To Find His Mother; Family Secret Is Revealed In Autobiography |first=Christopher |last=Drew |date=November 9, 2001 |accessdate=April 26, 2010}}</ref>
In March 2014, Kerik published his second book, ''From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate 84888-054'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.simonandschuster.com/From-Jailer-to-Jailed/Bernard-B-Kerik/9781476783710|title=From Jailer to Jailed|date=12 January 2016|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref> documenting the 13 prior years of his life including his incarceration and personal observations of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Kerik's novel ''The Grave Above the Grave'' was published by [[Humanix Books]] in September 2018.<ref name="KerikbookNewsmax">{{cite web |url= https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bernard-kerik-911-thriller-grave-above-the-grave/2018/09/04/id/880125/ |title= Bernard Kerik's New Thriller Reveals How to Stop the Next 9/11 |author= Bill Hoffmann |date= September 4, 2018 |work= [[Newsmax]] |accessdate= September 9, 2018 }}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [[Unsuccessful nominations to the Cabinet of the United States]]
==References==
===Notes===
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===Bibliography===
: This article was originally based on information from New York City's official website. http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/om/html/2000b/pr332-00{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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* ''War Stories: Behind the Silver and Gold Shields'', Thomas J. Ward, Bernard B. Kerik (Looseleaf Law Publications, 2002) {{ISBN|978-1-889031-58-3}}
* ''The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice'', Bernard B. Kerik (Regan Books, 2001) {{ISBN|978-0-06-000901-4}} (autobiography) https://web.archive.org/web/20030702190401/http://www.seaburn.com/blackbooknews/biography.htm
* ''In the Line of Duty'', Bernard B. Kerik (Regan Books, 2001)
* ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City'', Rajiv Chandrasekaran
* ''Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001'', Mitchell Fink and Lois Mathias (Regan Books, 2002)
* ''Leadership'', Rudolph W. Giuliani (Miramax Books, 2002)
* ''The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It'', John Miller, Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell
* ''My Year in Iraq'', L. Paul Bremer III (Simon & Schuster 2006)
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