Bush Nominee for Homeland Security Chief and 9/11 Big Shot...."Kerik's Name Removed From New York Jail"

NEW YORK Jul 2, 2006 (AP)— A city jail renamed to honor former police commissioner Bernard Kerik in 2001 has resurrected its previous name after he pleaded guilty to charges of taking gifts from construction firm.

Workers removed the sign from the Bernard B. Kerik Complex in lower Manhattan early Sunday and replaced it with one bearing a familiar name Manhattan Detention Complex, correction spokesman Michael Saucier said

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Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani approved changing the Manhattan Detention Complex's name to honor Kerik, who also had been correction commissioner.

In 2004, President Bush nominated Kerik to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security, but the nomination was withdrawn amid ethics questions.