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Article: Ties That Blinded; The controversy over Bernie Kerik's failed bid to run Homeland Security has hurt more than his reputation. Just ask his friend and business partner, Rudy Giuliani.(Interview)
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- Newsweek
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- December 27, 2004
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Byline: Charles Gasparino
For 15 years, Rudy Giuliani and Bernard Kerik watched each other's back. They met in 1989 at a fund-raiser for a slain officer, grew close, and Giuliani asked Kerik to be his bodyguard and driver during his mayoral campaign in 1993. Giuliani loved Kerik's rags-to-riches story (Kerik wrote in his autobiography that his mother was a prostitute). Once in office, Giuliani named Kerik his police commissioner. They helped lower New York's crime rate, and their quick work restoring the city to order after the 9/11 terrorist attacks made them national heroes. When Giuliani left office in early 2002, he set up shop as a consultant, and quickly ...