Bernard Kerik was the New York City Police Commissioner on Sep. 11, 2001. Later he was appointed by President Bush the younger as the interim Interior Minister in Iraq following the U.S. invasion of that country. Then in late 2004, Bush nominated Kerik to head the Department of Homeland Security.
Shortly after, Kerik withdrew from consideration from that role, saying that he had, without knowing it, engaged an illegal immigrant as a nanny and housekeeper (something which had previously led to the withdrawal of other high level nominations by Presidents Bush and Clinton). But then it also emerged that Kerik, who was married in 2001, had been carrying on two different extramarital affairs at the time, and used an apartment set aside for 9/11 recovery work to tryst with one of his paramours. And then it came out that Kerik had accepted a $250,000 interest free "loan" from an Israeli billionaire while working in Iraq. And then in 2007, Kerik was indicted on multiple counts of tax fraud apparently in relation to payments he'd received in 2001-03 form a real estate developer (no, not that one). He pleaded guilty in 2009 and served more than three years in prison.
In February 2020, President Trump pardoned him.
Kerik, who had been appointed as police commissioner in 2000 by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was later involved in Giuliani's efforts to help Donald Trump remain in power by overturning the 2020 election results. Now
Politico reports that Kerik has provided
some documents to the House Select Committee. He's also withheld some documents, claiming they are "attorney work product" (he himself is not an attorney, so I'm not sure that claim will hold up), but he's provided a list of those documents to the committee. One of them is titled:
"Draft Letter form POTUS to Seize Evidence in the Interest of National Security for the 2020 Elections"
Among the documents Kerik did provide to the committee was one that listed events Trump's team was planning to get the election results changed, including:
"Protests at Local Officials Homes/Offices".