Bernard Kerik, NYPD commissioner during 9/11, dies at 69
Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died. He was 69. FBI Director Kash Patel said that Kerik’s death Thursday came after an unspecified “private battle with illness.” Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who tapped Kerik as a bodyguard for