Bernard Kerik

Paul Bremer III. Kerik is currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland Maryland with a release scheduled for October 2013. A week later Kerik withdrew his nomination explaining that he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny; subsequently numerous allegations surfaced which would likely have led to a confirmation battle in the Senate.

On November 5 2009 he pleaded guilty to 8 charges in a plea bargain with prosecutors who recommended a jail sentence of 27 to 33 months. Bush nominated Kerik as United States Secretary of Homeland Security. On March 30 2011 he lost his appeal in federal court to have his four-year sentence reduced because of alleged bias by the sentencing judge.