Kerik kept first wife a secret (possible bigamy)

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nyc-wife1214,0,2382932.story?coll=nyc-homepage-headlines

Investigators conducting a background check of Bernard Kerik last week as part of his confirmation hearing uncovered that the then-Secretary of Homeland Security nominee was married to a woman he has apparently kept a secret for the past 20 years.

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Instead, he wrote about only two marriages, one to a New Jersey woman named Jacqueline, whom he married in 1983 when he was 28, and one to his current wife, Hala, whom he married in 1998.

But Kerik, who withdrew his name for consideration for the nation's top security post on Friday, was also married to the former Linda Hales in North Carolina. Kerik and Hales, who has since remarried and changed her name to Priest, were married Aug. 10, 1978, when she was 27 and he was three weeks shy of 24, according to her lawyer, Ronnie Mitchell. They separated in 1982 and were officially divorced June 6, 1983, Mitchell told Newsday.

In Kerik's book, however, he wrote that he married Jacqueline in the winter of 1983, raising questions about whether his first and second marriages overlapped.

December 22, 1983, after the divorce, though it would span the beginning of 1984.

Nothing there, I think.

From the article:

He wrote that by December, 1981, he had left North Carolina and returned to New Jersey. A short time after he arrived back in his native state, he met a woman named "Jackie" through a woman visiting an inmate housed in the jail where Kerik worked as a guard.

In October, 1982, he left Passaic for a security position at a Saudi Arabian hospital, "but I found I missed Jackie."

"After four months in Saudi Arabia, I flew home to New Jersey and we were quickly engaged and married," he wrote. "We honeymooned in Spain, and then I returned to Riyadh and Jackie went back to the states."

He wrote that he returned to New Jersey a few months later in the "spring of 1983" and then returned to Saudi Arabia with Jacqueline.

When questioned yesterday, an aide to Kerik maintained that, contrary to what he wrote in his autobiography, Kerik married Jacqueline in September, 1983. The aide said Kerik also recalls that he and Linda Kerik divorced in 1981 or 1982 and afterward "they made a mutual agreement between the two of them never to talk about it."

His reference to his first wife, from his autobiography:

"Before I left for the Middle East," he wrote, "I had fallen head over heels for a beautiful southern belle, but after I returned we quickly realized it wasn't meant to be."

Sounds very much like something he couldn't live with comfortably.

Well I guess he always knew where her guy was.

He married one woman in early 1983, and his divorce to the first woman was not final until June 1983. Talk about a real-life soap opera!

Sounds fishy to me!!

won't talk. Do you think it's respect for Rush...or cold, hard cash? Hey, cash worked for O'Reilly. His "loofah" crush got her out of court settlement.
The hypocrisy of these smug holier than thou family values guys is astonishing. Are their listeners/viewers really so pathetic that they look to these hollow men for direction?

I'm sure Rush paid them off handsomely.

drugs to cohabit and, yikes, conjugate with Rush? The really good drugs.

Hoo boy :evilgrin:

Kerik is the gift that keeps on giving.

Wish he hadn't withdrawn so quickly.

was with a 16 yr old Korean girl.. Just a hunch..

I cannot see a grown Korean woman being interested in a 19 yr old GI.
Having seen how some 19 yr old soldiers behave, I would bet money that the "Korean woman who he had a child with, and later abandoned" was a teenaged girl..

Leopards do not change their spots..He grew up "fast and loose" and that's the way he's led his entire life..

Hey, someone has to support the family. It's a lousy job those poor kids do, you can't help but feel sorry for them.

The older bargirls usually know how to avoid those pesky pregnancies. A young girl wouldn't be as savvy.

It sucks that he's probably going to be completely forgotten in a month.

only his hard nosed work would be the focus. Maybe this is the start of someething good---journalists actually doing their job!!!

lamented on Olbermann's show last night that the bad part of Kerik being outed like this and having to take himself out of contention was that "he's such a colorful guy, he would have made great copy."

Gee, is THAT why this story gets you, asshole?

If this were Clinton, Issikof would be off the deep end about it, screaming and rending his garments and invoking the "I" word (impeachment) up one side of the room and down the other - or getting "inside sources" within republi-CON circles to do it so he can then repeat it in his story. Ever see any of that in his bush coverage? Any at all?

Fuck Michael Issikof.

Or maybe - NOT fuck Michael Issikof.

:grr:

"Colorful" my ass.

I tell ya, I just about spit my tea when I saw that one yesterday evening on Olbermann. Unbelievable. And he was so blinkin' smug about it, too! I kept yelling at my TV - whatsamatter, Isikoff?!?!? Not enough CLINTON dirt in there for ya? The guy only knows how to "report" when it's Clinton's underwear drawer or garbage cans he gets to climb through.

Even if his marriages DIDN'T overlap, he's still been married three times and never acknowledged the first marriage.

What was that about the sanctity of marriage you hypocritical repukes?

I'm a lifelong Democrat, been married to the same man for 13 years now. Still married, still in love, never cheated.

:shrug:

Guess I just don't have "republican values."

What a guy. A Great American "Family Values" guy. Love that republi-CON morality stuff, 'eh?

:eyes:

If you can pull off having two wives at the same time...I think it's a pretty good assumption you can confuse the terra-ists.

Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

Bernie keeps surprising us, so I'm just aiming high.

The guy is a sociopath. No wonder he loves Sir Rudy who married his cousin (first cousin) and kept on having affairs as a badge of honor. For the life of me, I could never picture myself having sex with my cousins. That would be like having sex with my brothers. What a bunch of low-life bastards.

I don't understand how a person with an arrest warrant gets to be close to the president of the US, roams freely throughout the White House, is assigned contracts in Iraq...etc. From bankruptcy, he becomes a millionaire...Capitalism at its best.

Whoa, I never knew that.

Well, he did consider a career in the priesthood... I suppose there is a sexual connection there.

Donna was Numbah 2, Judy Numbah 3.

He dumped Numbah 1 because she COULD NOT CONCEIVE. He even got an ANNULMENT, so it sorta didn't count with the ole Catholic church. Her name was Regina Perrugi, and they were married a LONG TIME--68 to 82. But hey, lousy womb, lousy woman...off ya go!!!

Rudy's a sick, selfish fucker. Just like his chauffeur, Bernie Kerik. He thought he was so clever, but I'm sure he could never imagine that all the time he spent giving speeches to help the reelection of BushCo would come to this ignominious end. Now, not only does he have NO inside guy in the administration, he's also painted as a stupid asshole who makes bad recommendations.

You have to wonder if BushCo saw this coming, and decided to let it play out. I can't imagine that they did such a poor job of vetting this guy, unless they are either all afraid to cross the boyking, or they did it for a reason. Kill two birds with one stone, as it were. Karl Rove is a clever bastard, I think....

window, doesn't it? I have heard Santorum say that if "we allow gays to marry, who is going to stop people from marrying more than one, etc." I even heard a kid in one of my gov. classes say that this might let people think it's okay to marry animals (I am NOT kidding - this was in a college class - he was a worshipper of our idiotic governor Mitt Romney). I had to leave the class.

But this totally screws up there basis for not allowing it - they appoint someone who is a bigamist?

God's on their side, after all.

...didn't Rudy live with "two gay guys and a shit-shu?"

The more I think about it, and the more coverage I see, days and days after Kerik has withdrawn (now they are speculating that the "nanny" story was a total canard, to cover up for the bigamy, the affairs, and the mob ties), I swear that BushCo let this happen to completely de-ball the Rudy wing of the GOP.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer--the easier to stick a shiv in them.

I held my nose to listen to Inanity's show yesterday. Apparently, the "liberal media" is "trying to tear down" poor ol', 911 "hero" Bernard Kerik, who is, in Sean's estimation, "a great American".

except when they apply to Democrats or liberals.

Sean the draft dodger should know this answer.

The fascists regard any fascist who was within a 1000 asuare mile of ground zero as a "hero" regardless of their moral and ethical background.

Is that why he has an open arrest warrant for him in New Jersey? Is that true?

Had to do with a $5,000 debt regarding a condo in New Jersey.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57960-2004Dec11.html?sub=AR

Excerpt:

In the vetting process, which was conducted by the office of White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, Kerik also never mentioned that a New Jersey judge had issued a warrant for his arrest in 1998 over a civil dispute over unpaid bills, the sources said. The existence of the dispute was first reported by Newsweek Friday night.

He's a post-child repug.

is this more moral than my marrying ONE man? Just curious.

nt

:kick:

Is Rove losing his touch, or is the issue worse than bigamy, with sex as the diversion du jour?

Anyone else remember a SNL skit with Rudy in femme drag? I remarked to SO at the time that Rudy sure looked at home in drag. Anybody else wondering how Kerik "fell" to the top at every turn? He had no connections just another shlub yet he appears to have had quite the meteoric rise to power.

YMMV but I think Kerik was much more than Rudy's driver and he has the photos. Just sayin'.:evilgrin:

The multiple marriage stories might just be trying to give the impression of a ladies man. Sex diversion indeed.

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Drip Drip Drip or should that read Ooze Ooze Ooze?:silly:

who was caught by his wife giving head to his male political aide?

I understand that there has to be some male on male hankypanky going on even among the sanctimonious GOP ranks, but they can't ALL be J. Edgar Hoover.

Can they?

That scandal came and went like a teeny whisper. I've always wondered if we'll ever find out what's really going on in Austin.

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Rick Perry, correct? Funny stuff, to say the least.

we would be having a field day with him come January. He has a shit load of skeltons in his closet.

This is getting ridiculous. He's already withdrawn from the position. It's already clear he was a poor choice and the Bush administration didn't bother to clear him. This is degenerating into gossip. Why doesn't the press concentrate more on what the administration is up to now than on the personal lives of failed nominees. The tawdry always wins out over substance.

The Pugs set the precedent with hassling the Big Dog from the time he was a candidate until he left office. And even some yahoo was chipping at the Big Dog this week in Central Park, when the Big Dog took some time to tell the creep off.

The Pugs should know by now they are not immunne to exposing personal failings.

Wow, it really does suck to be him. Even after he withdraws, all these skeletons come tumbling out. Tis the season!

:kick:

bush fcks up EVERYTHING he does, no exceptions.

But this one -appointing Kerik the thief, embezzler, liar, bigamist, adulterer, mob-connected thug as Director of HOMELAND SECURITY- bush really outdid his usual standard of total fck-up failure.

Ole Golan Cipel was just an Israeli rent boy slash Mossad operative; easily as well qualified to manage the physical security of Americans as ole Bernie!

As I said above, this is starting to look like they threw the Nanny story out there like a chunk of red meat, hoping the reporters would jump on it and ignore the affairs, the bigamy, the mob ties, the suspicious contracts and deals. Pesky reporters...they spend four years sleeping, and then wake up and sorta kinda do their job.

And if the White House failed to vet the guy (and I can't believe that they didn't do any background checks--hell, Bernie was getting TS briefings when his nomination was announced, without a clearance) then the White House is totally INCOMPETENT. I think they are stupid and vicious, but I won't "misunderestimate" them. I think they planned this from the git-go, to cut off Rudy's nuts and make him less viable in future. They want to define the future of the GOP, and they are getting rid of anyone or any faction that makes waves or challenges their authority. Vicious, clever bastards, they!

Well, I can't say that for a fact.

But as far as opinions go, it's a goodie.

child porn when I see this guy? He is just such a sleazeball that nothing would surprise me now. Come on NY Post, tell us what else does Bernie like to do?

how can people still buy that repuke bullshit?

every one of them is a serial divorcer, woman abuser, child molester, bigamist, or prosty toe-sucking perv.

not that there's anything wrong with that.