{"id":469646,"date":"2025-05-30T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/bernard-kerik-former-new-york-city-police-commissioner-dies-at-69\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:54:16","slug":"bernard-kerik-former-new-york-city-police-commissioner-dies-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/bernard-kerik-former-new-york-city-police-commissioner-dies-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Kerik, former New York City Police Commissioner, dies at 69."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York.- <\/strong>\u00a0Former New York City Police Commissioner, <strong>Bernard Kerik<\/strong>, passed away on Thursday &#8220;after a private battle with illness,&#8221; confirmed <strong>FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kash Patel<\/a><\/strong>, without providing details.<\/p>\n\n\nKerik was appointed police commissioner by Giuliani in 2000 and held the position during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The officer became a familiar face to Americans in the days following the attack on the twin towers of the <strong>World Trade Center<\/strong>, in September 2001.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reflected on his long relationship with his former police commissioner on his Thursday show. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been together since the beginning. He&#8217;s like my brother,&#8221; Giuliani said through tears. &#8220;I became a better person for having known Bernie. Without a doubt, I was a braver and stronger man.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010,<strong> Kerik pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud<\/strong> and false statement charges, in part due to the renovation of apartments for more than $250,000 that he received from a construction company that, according to the authorities, counted on Kerik to convince New York authorities that he had no ties to organized crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He served three years in prison before being released in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His statement helped him to <strong>avoid a maximum sentence of up to 61 years in prison<\/strong> and, instead, he was sentenced to four years in prison. He finally regained his freedom in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/el-nypd-ha-pagado-mas-de-82-millones-de-dolares-en-demandas-por-brutalidad-policial-en-lo-que-va-de-ano\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/el-nypd-ha-pagado-mas-de-82-millones-de-dolares-en-demandas-por-brutalidad-policial-en-lo-que-va-de-ano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NYPD has paid more than 82 million dollars in lawsuits for police brutality so far this year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nKerik was also one of the people cited by U.S. lawmakers to answer for accusations of conspiring to alter the election results during the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.\n\nHe was pardoned by <strong>President Donald Trump<\/strong> in 2020. The officer was among the guests who feted Trump after his first appearance before a federal court in Florida in a case related to his handling of classified documents.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York.- \u00a0Former New York City Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik, passed away on Thursday &#8220;after a private battle with illness,&#8221; confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel, without providing details. Kerik was appointed police commissioner by Giuliani in 2000 and held the position during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The officer became a familiar face to Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":469647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13603,26401,40819],"class_list":["post-469646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-new-york","tag-nypd","tag-police"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YaW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-05-30T094434.893.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-05-30T094434.893.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}