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< big snip > Or how about his role as New York City Police Commissioner in the summer of 2001, when his department purchased nearly $200,000 worth of apparently useless security doors for 1 Police Plaza from a Queens company named Georal Inc. The doors were never installed and were soon lost. Kerik's successor as police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, has ordered an investigation into why the doors were purchased in the first place but no report has been published yet. Meanwhile, Kerik went to work in November of 2003 as an outside advisor to a Hauppauge, Long Island penny stock...

[F]ormer New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik has been selected by President Bush to... [head] Homeland Security.... Certainly it was a moment to remember for Kerik, an up-from-the-streets type of fellow who began life as the son of a New Jersey prostitute, maneuvered his way into becoming a limo driver and bodyguard for the Mayor, and has now wound up ready to take on the role of a lifetime as a kind of cabinet-level Bo Dietel for the whole of America. ...[A] timely recent sale of stock in a company called Taser International, Inc., where he has been serving...