We've contacted Kerik's attorney to verify the authenticity of the page, but no matter who set it up or why, there's no doubt that it features a lot of photos of Kerik, his dog, his wife, his children, and his grandchildren. Also of Caroline Manzo, of Real Housewives of New Jersey fame, who famously declared of her family, "We are not The Sopranos!"

Though the profile page says the account was created in June 2008, most of the 374 photos in the "Pro" (i.e. paid) account were uploaded in one big batch on September 18, 2009, with another round going up on October 8, less than two weeks before Kerik was jailed by a federal judge for leaking confidential information about his case to a reporter. We imagine that as Kerik geared up for a highly public trial, his team thought it might be a good idea to get photos of him as a family man, dedicated cop, and anti-terrorism official out there. Here's a selection of our favorites, but we highly recommend you check it out for a glimpse of Kerik through the decades. Especially the Seventies. The Seventies look awesome.

CLARIFICATION: Some commenters think Kerik is doing a taekwondo, not karate, move in that photo. We have no idea, so we settled for "martial arts."

[Via Cryptome.]

Kerik's 1993 detective photo.

Kerik's wife, Hala, with Real Housewife of New Jersey Caroline Manza: "Let me tell you something about my family, we're as thick as thieves. And we protect each other to the end."

Kerik, in an undated photo, escorting Weather Underground radical Susan Rosenberg.

With NYPD Midtown South Anti-Crime Unit.

In Harlem, 1989.

On patrol in Korea, 1975.

With NYPD Harbor Unit.

Kerik's dog's playing on the beach in Aqaba, Jordan.

SWAT training.

With his youngest daughter Angelina.

Kerik's son Joe with Caroline Manzo's son Albie.

The former police commissioner and Rudy Giuliani's closest non-gay-married friend and sexer-of-Judith Regan-in-a-secret-ground-zero-apartment is already facing like a hundred charges of tax fraud and conspiracy here in New York, and he is maybe on lawyer number three after telling his first two to lie to investigators, but now he gets to head down to Washington for new charges of lying to White House vetters.

Kerik is charged with falsely denying to White House officials that as a public official he had any financial dealings with individuals seeking to do business with the city.

That means "he didn't tell us he was mobbed up," we think.

And within a couple months they'd settled with the DEA for a 10th of what the feds initially wanted without admitting any wrong-doing and then they continued with their business and all their executives avoided jail time and Giuliani made a fucking killing. As did Bernie Kerik, that charmingly corrupt cop who stole America's heart and also hundreds of thousands of tax dollars. Because he was the natural choice to shore up security at the pill plant.

You can learn all the rest of the filthy details in either today's New York Times or in the January Vanity Fair, because journalists across this great nation are having a hilarious field day with the scummy business dealings of Giuliani Partners. But you should read the Vanity Fair one instead because it was written by Maggie's brother!

A Tale of Two Giulianis [Vanity Fair]
Under Attack, Drug Maker Turned to Giuliani for Help [NYT]

But Kerik is somehow even more radioactive than the boy-fondling priest, so Rudy just sticks with the "rogue cop who played by his own rules" defense. Sure, he's under investigation for multiple felonies, but he personally locked up all the black people in the jail he named after himself, leading to an historic drop in crime that has nothing to do with any other factors.

''Sure, there were issues, but if I have the same degree of success and failure as president of the United States, this country will be in great shape,'' Giuliani said, threateningly.

Then he said, "'When you do a lot of things, there are more things where you've made mistakes."

Giuliani Praises Kerik's Crime Results [NYT]

Lawyers: Kerik Welshing On $200,000 Bill [TSG]

Ladies and gentlemen, I know that many of you disagree with my position on abortion. And my mixed signals on gay marriage. Or gun control. And I understand that it looks a little funny that pretty much everyone so many of my associates, from Bernie Kerik to the cocaine-dealing campaign aide to that molesty priest have engaged in criminal activities. The cross-dressing thing probably doesn't put your mind at ease. And the fact that I've been married three times, once to my cousin, well, even I find that a little creepy. But you know what? 9/11. Also: Firemen! Flags! Kittens with firemen! God bless America.

Giuliani Will Strive To Woo Christian Conservatives [NYS]

Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Judith Regan

PIRRO STEERED D.A. CONTRACT TO KERIK [NYP]
Pirro's Daughter Defends Mom In AG's Race Scandal [WNBC]

Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Jeanine Pirro

It's like watching a mortally wounded animal. You're only sorry that it has to suffer and that there's nothing you can do about it.

That was the Times' Ben Brantley, from his classic disemboweling of Paul Simon's ill-fated Capeman musical. The sentiment holds true for politics: There comes a point when the travails of even the most reprehensible, grandstanding, blindly ambitious pol become too painful to watch. No matter how much contempt we have for Republican Attorney General candidate Jeanine Pirro (and how self-righteous does one have to be to make a Cuomo seem humble by comparison?) even we, who have delighted in every fumble of her two error-prone campaigns this year (you may remember that she originally planned to challenge Senator Clinton), can only derive so much joy from the suffering of others, no matter how deserving or self-inflicted. We'll just put it this way: Her go-to guy was Bernie Kerik. What do you stress first, the comedy or the ineptitude?

Oh, Neaner. All you wanted was a high-paying gig on Fox News. Now the best you're likely to do is a show on MSNBC; we hope you still have an intern left to kill.

Jeanine Pirro Under Criminal Investigation [WNBC]

Feds Investigate Ex-NYPD Commisioner Kerik [FOXNews]
Bernard Kerik Mug Shot [TSG]

Earlier: Howard Safir Went to the Oscars and All I Got Was My Name Taken Off That Lousy Jail