Kerik is Jail Group Keynoter (speech on "leadership, valor, determination)

[Rose Siding]

The scandals dogging Bernard Kerik won't stop the city's former top cop from telling "tales of leadership, valor and determination" at a major jails conference tomorrow.

Although his leadership abilities are now being called into question, the disgraced former nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security will be a keynote speaker at the American Correctional Association's conference in Phoenix.

"Mr. Kerik's tales of leadership, valor and determination will serve as motivation for hundreds of attendees in reaching their desired goals," the association says on its Web site.

Organizers of the get-together for jail administrators from across the country say they invited Kerik to speak in September 2003, when his reputation was still sterling.

"We felt like at that point, it would have been, shall we say, a bit uncomfortable to rescind the invitation," said ACA President Gwendolin Chunn.

She said Kerik is expected to speak about the terrorist threat to the country's jails and prisons — a topic that has nothing to do with the corruption and romantic scandals that have cropped up in the past few weeks.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38154.htm

[AlCzervik]

1. Maybe he'll end up in jail, how ironic.

[underpants]

2. Gawghawghaw almost choked on my sandwich

This guy is the gift that keeps on giving.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Just when he had dropped out of the news cycle,

there he is again.

Beautiful. I hope he stays in the news for at least another week.

[Robbien]

4. Kerik got paid $10,000 for speaking engagements such as this

Wonder what his going rate would be today?

[Rose Siding]

5. Says he doesn't charge police groups

Kerik has also waived his traditional speaking fee, as he always does for law-enforcement groups, said his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina.

[underpants]

6. Uh-huh if it under the table he doesn't have to report it

Seriously does anyone think he wouldn't do that?

[0007]

13. What a guy! I bet Kerik has other tricks to put the arm on even

the most loyal after waving his traditional speaking fee -

A comic couldn't be more amusing!

[AmandaRuth]

7. maybe he will speak to the logistical challenges of

keeping 3 girls at a time Now that would take some leadership and motivation.

[edbermac]

8. We have GOT to get some DU'ers in there with a video camera...

And a megaphone...maybe we could ask him if he and O'Reilly share the same loofah...

[Stinky The Clown]

9. If you go to the ACA website after the conference I'll bet you could

buy a tape of his presentation.

[Historic NY]

10. Terrorist threat to jails & prisons.......thats a new one........n/t

[NYC]

11. Will he offer tips on stealing cigarette money?

"He couldn't run the Rikers commissary without getting greedy and making a mess, in a jam," one correction veteran said. "Now he's gonna be in charge of the Department of Homeland Security? Let's just hope the terrorists don't decide to come back."

This former subordinate was referring to just one of many petty scandals that have hung over Kerik's career. When he ran Correction, nearly $1 million of tobacco-company rebates were diverted into an obscure foundation Kerik was president of. This was for cigarettes bought with taxpayer money and then sold at inflated prices to jail inmates. But this rebate money - would kickbacks be a better word? - got spent entirely outside the normal rules for public funds.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/ny-nyhen034063947dec03,0,2450252.column

[Vidar]

12. Let's do the Jailhouse Rock