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Kerik's Secret wife

Another scandal from the corrupt Commish.

First there was "The Lost Son." Now comes the lost wife.

Investigators conducting a background check of Bernard Kerik last week as part of his confirmation hearing uncovered that the then-Secretary of Homeland Security nominee was married to a woman he has apparently kept a secret for the past 20 years.

Friends of his said they were not aware of the woman, and Kerik did not acknowledge the marriage in his best-selling autobiography, "The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice."

Instead, he wrote about only two marriages, one to a New Jersey woman named Jacqueline, whom he married in 1983 when he was 28, and one to his current wife, Hala, whom he married in 1998.

But Kerik, who withdrew his name for consideration for the nation's top security post on Friday, was also married to the former Linda Hales in North Carolina.

Kerik and Hales, who has since remarried and changed her name to Priest, were married Aug. 10, 1978, when she was 27 and he was three weeks shy of 24, according to her lawyer, Ronnie Mitchell. They separated in 1982 and were officially divorced June 6, 1983, Mitchell told Newsday.

The reason this is important even though he withdrew his name is Alberto Gonzales is the one who vetted Kerik BEFORE Bush named him HS chief. It took Newsweek 3 days to find the dirt on Kerik and the guy Bush wants appointed to the top Law enforcement officer position in our government didn't find anything and approved of him.

The attorney General is going to have to make decisions based on knowing all of the facts, we're looking at reason #1 why a group of "Yes Men" are bad choices for Cabinet positions. Bush liked Kerik because he was a tough guy and look where it got them, thrown into scandal.

Feeling better about the next four years?
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