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Judith Regan, former book publisher, says a senior News Corporation executive encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik after he had been nominated to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him NYC police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. --SNIP-- “Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik,” the complaint says. “.....a senior News Corporation executive told Regan that he believed she...

December 13, 2004 Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik conducted two extramarital affairs simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park City apartment for the passionate liaisons, the Daily News has learned. The first relationship, spanning nearly a decade, was with city Correction Officer Jeanette Pinero; the second, and more startling, was with famed publishing titan Judith Regan. His affair with Regan, the stunningly attractive head of her own book publishing company, lasted for almost a year. Dramatically, each woman learned of the existence of the other after Pinero discovered a love note left by Regan in the apartment. The revelations about Kerik's...

REPORTS: PUBLISHER JUDITH REGAN TO FILE $100 MILLION SUIT AGANIST MURDOCH EMPIRE IN NY COURT; WILL BE REPPED BY SUPERLAWYER BERT FIELDS... DEVELOPING... Just a header on Drudge right now.. Regan grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971.[1] She then attended Vassar College, receiving her A.B. degree in 1975. Then in 1978, while working as a secretary at Harvard, Regan answered a newspaper ad for a reporter for The National Enquirer and got the job. In the early 1980s, Regan relocated to New York City. After the 911 attacks in 2001, Regan published...

NEW YORK -- One-time book publishing powerhouse Judith Regan filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against HarperCollins and News Corp. on Tuesday, saying her former employers tried to destroy her reputation and asked her to lie to federal investigators about Bernard Kerik, the recently indicted former police commissioner with whom she had an affair. Ms. Regan, who worked for HarperCollins Publishers LLC, said the smear campaign stems from her past intimate relationship with Mr. Kerik, who was police commissioner under former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and from the political agenda of News Corp., the parent company of HarperCollins. Ms. Regan, 54,...

Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. (Snip) The News Corporation controls a vast array...

Yes Rudy Giuliani has a lot of explaining to do. Imagine, the man who served as his chief of prisons and then police commissioner while Giuliani was mayor of New York City has been indicted. Bernard Kerik, whom President Bush would later nominate for the position of Homeland Security chief based greatly on Giuliani's rave reviews, has been charged with not reporting income, having work done on his home for free and not reporting it, having some one else pay his rent and not reporting it, lying to federal investigators and lying on his federal application for the homeland security...

He was a colorful, star cop who impressed his superiors with his zeal for catching the worst of the worst - murderous drug dealers - and he did much to lower crime in the city. His rise was meteoric, his crash just as swift as he faced indictment on federal charges. We're not talking about Bernard Kerik here, but Dennis Sindone. He spent most of his career in the Bronx and was promoted to deputy inspector by Kerik because of his stellar performance, even being singled out for praise by the then-police commissioner at a promotion ceremony. Weeks after those...

Rudy Giuliani’s chief foreign policy adviser blasted the Bush administration for "incompetencies," accusing the White House of alienating allies, creating domestic and international ill will and failing on multiple fronts in the war on terror. Charles Hill, the Yale University professor heading up the GOP frontrunner’s foreign policy team, pledged that a Giuliani administration would "get the job done," in an interview with FOX News last Friday. "(Foreign policy) will begin to be operative and be successful and produce results. It will have no needless animosities, it will have none of the incompetencies that unfortunately, we have been seeing," Hill...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Rudy Giuliani said Monday that if his achievements as president are as good as the crime-reduction results of his New York police commissioner, a man now under criminal investigation himself, "this country will be in great shape." Giuliani, in an interview with The Associated Press, acknowledged mistakes by Bernard Kerik, who was police commissioner when Giuliani was mayor. But he said crime reduction for the city was more important. Kerik, whom Giuliani pushed to head the federal Department of Homeland Security, is under investigation on what could be multiple felony charges. Giuliani said he hadn't spoken to...

Bernard Kerik's indictment on federal corruption charges last week left unanswered a nagging question from longtime Kerik-watchers: What, exactly, became of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a city-created foundation, of which Kerik - Rudy Giuliani's friend, protege and appointee - was listed as president in the days when he ran the city jails? The answer could be explosive. Or it could be innocuous. The point is that we still do not know. In 2004, a former deputy commissioner, Fred Patrick, was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding the foundation of more than $137,000 - purportedly for...

Allies could cause alarmA list of Rudolph Giuliani's associates, past and present, who have faced legal trouble are likely to spur questions about his judgmentBY TOM BRUNE February 22, 2007 WASHINGTON - It had been a few years since Richard Tollner last publicly accused his former teacher Msgr. Alan Placa of groping him in high school, but Tollner recently repeated the charges - raising an awkward issue for Rudolph Giuliani's run for president. Tollner, now a mortgage banker, appeared at a Feb. 8 Manhasset meeting of Voice of the Faithful of Long Island, a Catholic group concerned about priest-abuse cases,...

When Giuliani walked out of City Hall six years ago, he had $2M in the bank.....Then came book deals, speaking tours and partnership at a powerful Washington lobbying house. None would prove more lucrative than the small consulting firm Giuliani and his most trusted aides founded in 2002 in an angular glass tower at 5 Times Square. Since 2002, Giuliani Partners has formed several subsidiaries--Giuliani Capital Advisors - an investment since sold - Giuliani Compliance Japan and security companies called Giuliani-Kerik and Giuliani Security & Safety........ By the time Giuliani declared for president last spring, his firm grossed an estimated...

The reported indictment of Rudy Giuliani's high-profile former police commissioner sets in motion a new and challenging phase for the presidential campaign of the former New York mayor. Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist who managed Bob Dole's presidential campaign in 1996, said the expected charges against Bernard Kerik - CNN, ABC, and the Associated Press reported last night that the indictment would be unsealed today - "raises a new round of questions about judgment, it will cause opposition researchers to dig in and find out if there are any other Bernie Keriks, and it will throw the campaign off...

He has a close friend at the White House and an international profile unlike any achieved by a former New York City mayor. Now, Rudolph W. Giuliani and his security consulting firm should soon have another advantage: a former business partner in charge of a sprawling government department that buys $7 billion a year in homeland security goods and services. The move by Bernard B. Kerik from the Times Square offices of Giuliani Partners to Washington, where he has been nominated to become secretary of Homeland Security, will present both an opportunity and a challenge for the former mayor, other...

Bernard Kerik lied, schemed and sold out the city - all under the nose of his mentor and pal, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. That is the stark portrait painted in the 16-count indictment unsealed yesterday in White Plains Federal Court almost exactly one year before Election Day 2008. While the political fallout remains uncertain, the effect on Kerik's image as a Sept. 11 hero is devastating. In meticulous detail, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia assembled count after count painting Kerik as a money-grubbing liar who tried to cover his tracks. The indictment says the misdeeds took place as Giuliani promoted...

Michelle Malkin reports that the normally in your face Rudy refuses to the answer the question if he would pardon Kerik if Rudy becomes President. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/08/the-kerik-indictment-giuliani-and-t... Another report said that after Kerik's indictment Rudy disappeared from site. Rudy's close association with criminal types like Kerik is a problem for his candidacy. He has gone out of his way to maintain relations with seedy friends when others would have cut relations. See:http://www.redstate.com/blogs/ashbrook/2007/oct/23/giuliani_shields_priest_friend Kerik's puzzling rise under Rudy has raised suspicion from the beginning. Rudy knew Kerik very well when he recommended him as Homeland Security head. Inside the Police Department he...

Don't miss this summary of Rudy's Immigration Record "YOU'RE ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WE WANT IN THIS CITY" Mayor Giuliani & Sen. Clinton Support Sanctuary For Illegal Alliens "Giuliani's newfound border-security zeal is intended to blunt criticism by GOP rival Mitt Romney of Rudy's pro-sanctuary record as New York mayor. Giuliani has issued Clintonian denials that he supported sanctuary. But the record is clear." (Michelle Malkin, Op-Ed, "Sanctuary Nation Or Sovereign Nation?" National Review, 8/15/07) Mayor Giuliani Ran New York City With A Sanctuary State Of Mind: As Mayor, Giuliani Actually Invited More Illegal Immigrants To Come To New...

How much exactly would it cost to get Rudy Giuliani to holster his overdone 9/11 sanctimony? The government for the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar might have a good idea. Following earlier reports that Giuliani was still getting paid by the consulting firm he created, Mary Jacoby of the Wall Street Journal sheds light on some potentially problematic sources of Giuliani's private income. Chief among them is Qatar, the U.S. ally that paid Giuliani Partners for "security advice" regarding their petroleum facilities. The article uncovers a "potential political pitfall" for Giuliani's candidacy and image given Qatar's spotty record in...

December 12, 2004 Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik accepted thousands of dollars in cash and gifts without making proper public disclosures, a Daily News investigation has revealed. Kerik failed to report the gifts on financial disclosure forms he was required to file with the city as head of the both the NYPD and, before that, the Department of Correction. The revelations come in the wake of Kerik's stunning announcement Friday night that he was withdrawing his nomination as President Bush's secretary of homeland security. Kerik maintained yesterday that he pulled out on his own after discovering he...

Federal prosecutors have told Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, that he is likely to be charged with several felonies, including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping. Kerik's indictment could set the stage for a courtroom battle that would draw attention to Kerik's extensive business and political dealings with former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who personally recommended him to President Bush for the Cabinet.