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Article: A Tough Guy Tumbles; He's run a cop shop and dodged bullets in Iraq. But the trail he left behind helped keep him from Bush's cabinet.(Bernard Kerik)
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- Newsweek
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- December 20, 2004
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Byline: Mark Hosenball, Charles Gasparino and Michael Isikoff (With Evan Thomas and Kathryn Williams)
Richard (Bo) Dietl and Bernard Kerik have long been familiar figures in the flashy underside of New York City night life. They could be seen swaggering into Rao's, an exclusive Italian restaurant in Harlem, where mobsters and models and Wall Street masters of the universe drink shots and swap boasts. Both men were up-from-nothing tough guys, former cops who now wore silk-threaded suits and thin-soled loafers. Sometimes Bo and Bernie were buddies, sometimes not. Lately they have been friends again. Bo is in the security business; Bernie had just been nominated as ...