The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Giuliani&Kerik, Bloomberg&Kelly. NY Mayors, unlucky in their top cops.

    By jollyroger on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 8:08pm |

    We are being priveleged to witness, once again, the down-in-flames destruction of a creepy New York Police Commissioner. (ed note: the last non-creepy one wasTeddy Roosevelt...)

    In the current instance, Ray Kelly, the putative field marshall of Mikey Bloomberg's private army (hey, that's what HE calls it...), is caught, pants down guest starring  in a blantantly anti-Muslim training film.  As usual, the coverup is way worse than the misdeed.


    Along with Kelly, who initially facilitated the fraud, the department spokesman is discussing retirement options with this financial adviser.



    This will be a rubber to the road test of the real American dream--the one that envisions a universe wherein a blatant lie about high level misdeeds cannot be the foundation of continued high level employability.

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    I'm a bit surprised Bloomberg didn't terminate Kelly. It will be interesting to see how this process develops. 

    Thanks for posting this.


    by Aunt Sam on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:25am

    Actually, it is rather odd, considering how heinous the whole story is when added up-Bloomberg is famously loyal, but also knows when to cut his losses. (cf, Catherine Black)


    by jollyroger on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:34am

    "There are too many instances where he has blatantly lied about what is going on with the NYPD to the taxpayers who pay his salary," City Councilman Jumaane Williams recently told reporters. "Once, perhaps you could say it was a mistake. Twice, oops, I did it again. Three, four, five times: There's no excuse."

    I don't see how Paul Brown holds on...He bald-faced lied about something he had specific knowledge of.


    by jollyroger on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 5:05am