{"id":70,"date":"2004-12-22T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/a_series_of_unfortunate_events.html"},"modified":"2004-12-22T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T00:35:20","slug":"a_series_of_unf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/a_series_of_unf.html","title":{"rendered":"A Series of Unfortunate Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding insult to injury &#8212; or just a case of utter hubris &#8212; Bernard Kerik now announces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nynewsday.com\/nyc-keri1223,0,6233177.story?coll=nyc-homepage-headlines\">he is resigning effective immediately from Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s consulting firm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At a news conference in Manhattan, Kerik said he had apologized to Giuliani for being a distraction because of his messy withdrawal as a candidate to head the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The string damaging allegations dogging Kerik have inlcuded: two alleged extramarital affairs, allegations of sending inside information to friends with suspected mob ties about an impending city investigation into their business affairs, and unpaid immigration taxes on a nanny who was not a U.S. citizen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related note: Have you noticed lately how everyone is co-opting Lemony Snicket&#8217;s &#8220;A Series of Unfortunate Events&#8221;? Case in point: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/21\/opinion\/21brooks.html?ex=1261371600&#038;en=89379ead37617e8c&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">David Brooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding insult to injury &#8212; or just a case of utter hubris &#8212; Bernard Kerik now announces he is resigning effective immediately from Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s consulting firm: At a news conference in Manhattan, Kerik said he had apologized to Giuliani for being a distraction because of his messy withdrawal as a candidate to head the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}