NYC-WTC_000230759

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Kerik book with WTC story is rushed By JOHN MARZUUJ was 3. Kerik’s mother was later O DAIUf NEWS POUCE BUREAU CHIEF murdered, and Kerik recounts Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik’s autobiogra­ — with the help of co-author Jess Walter — how he tried to phy will be rushed into print next month — with a track down her killer. new chapter about the World Trade Center disaster ‘Appearance problem' 2 — to maximize sales before the city’s top cop leaves his.job on Dec. 31. the Daily News has learned. fl Gene Russianoff, executive di­ rector of the New York Public In­ terest Research Group, said the C/l But the revised publication after he was forced to resign by prospect of the police commis­ date and a sales pitch that touts Mayor Giuliani. sioner traveling on the book cir- Kerik’s role as “a leader at “There’s a lesson to be cult creates “an appearance d Ground Zero” have raised eye­ brows among people both in learned — get the book out while he’s still commissioner,” problem.” “I would call on the commis­ w cn and out of government. Olsewski said. sioner to ask his publisher to re­ O City Councilman Sheldon Lef­ Kerik, the first police commis­ move this from their promo­ fler (D-Queens), chairman of sioner to publish memoirs while tions,” Russianoff said. “It feels the Public Safety Committee, still in office, is slated to make at like someone is exploiting this . said capitalizing on the World Trade Center tragedy is in bad least 22 appearances to promote the book, including visits to the terrible tragedy.’ . According to the book’s pro­ i o n taste. “Today” show, Howard Stern motional material. Kerik fin­ ished his memoirs in the early : H O “It profits from the tragedies of others.” Leffler said. and Bob Grant. - A publisher’s blurb on the Bar­ morning hours of Sept. 11, the ow HH The book, entitled “The Lost nes & Noble Web site says the KEN MURJUT LWCLT NLnS day of the attack. Over the next , H Son — A Life in Pursuit of Jus­ books will feature 16 pages of HOT COPY police Police Commissioner eernara Kerik's Lommissicner Bernard reriKS book with 60 dook wren du four weeks, he penned a i gO-page afterward entitled tice,” was originally scheduled cover- pgggj qj, yy^rld Hade Center tragedy hits bookstores Nov. 13. “Ground Zero.” i to for publication early next year, mg the attack and its after- _ “b r Olsewski insisted that Kerik is ! Cj to with Kerik presumably out of o O^ewski said the ohotos were Sept. 11. Wayne Hawley, counsel to the sensitive to the tragedy . city government. It now will hit taken bvS S an ISWD NYPD officials had no com- city’s Conflicts of Interest “If somebody wanted to do a , tsi S bookstores on Nov. 13. o Q staff ohotoeraoher ’ when asked to explain Board, said city property can be o ReganBooks publisher Judith Police sSesman Tom An- how photos taken by a public used ody for city purposes, but World Trade Center, « Mtj^- o Regan was eager to get the book out before Kerik retired from tenen acknowledged that Botte employee could be used in a for- declined to comment on the pho- o is a member of the NYPD photo profit book. It also was unclear tos in Kerik’s book. ReganBooks is also publish-' the NYPD, according to a I spokesman for the company. unit, but said he could not con- if ReganBooks had paid the In May, Kenk was granted a a book of World 'Trade Cen- o firm whether Botte took the pic- NYPD for the photos. waiver by the conflicts board be- disaster photos with fore- The spokesman, Paul Olsew- ski, pointed out sales were lack­ tures. Asked if any profits from the fore he signed a six-fi^re deal words by Kerik and Fire Com- co luster for former Police Commis­ Antenen also said the decision book would be given to charity, to write the memoirs, in which missioner Thomas Von Essen, i co sioner William Bratton’s mem­ to move up the book’s publica­ Antenen said, “Not that I’m he tells of how he was aban- Proceeds from that book will be oirs, which came out two years tion date had been made before aware of." doned by his mother when he donated to charity.

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