Bush knew this guy was a low life loser, and still wanted to place him in charge of Homeland Security. Why? Because of Kerik's "perceived" positive 9/11 connection.
THE CHILLING DAY BERNIE STALKED REGAN'S SON ON HIGHWAY: BIZ PAL
December 16, 2004 -- WAS Bernard Kerik a stalker? As the illicit romance between former top cop Kerik and publishing titan Judith Regan went down the drain in late 2002, the jilted Kerik snapped, according to people who knew them both.
He not only followed his ex-lover around town — he seemed to be following her children, two business associates of Regan's told me yesterday.
One associate, who has not seen or spoken to Regan in a year and a half, said, "She had me in her office one day, raving about how he was stalking her." That was in late 2002, long before Kerik came this close to leading Homeland Security. "He's insane!" Regan told the associate.
When Regan ate in a restaurant with another man, Kerik called her cellphone, or had the management page her, said the source. Once he got her on the phone, "He'd describe the man she was having dinner with. He seemed to be watching her through the window," the associate said. He kept a key to her apartment, said another pal, and showed up unexpectedly. On a business trip to Los Angeles, she said, he had her followed.
But what frightened Regan most was a call in which Kerik he claimed to be following her son as he drove back to college in Massachusetts.
"He said, 'I'm following Patrick. I'm at this exit at the turnpike. I want you to know this is where he is,' " the associate recalled.
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