A Nanny Problem

Oops, sorry. Wrong Problem...



That's better. Bernard (or "Droopy" as he's known to his friends) doesn't look too happy, does he? Maybe it's because he's upset that Fran Drescher destroyed the purity of Spinal Tap's "Bobbi Flekman" by reprising her character on The Nanny. Or maybe it's because of all of this shit:

• In reviewing his personal finances this week as he prepared for (secretary of homeland security) confirmation hearings, Mr. Kerik...determined that a housekeeper and nanny he had once employed was not clearly a legal immigrant and that he had not properly paid taxes on her behalf.

•Financial questions were raised after it was revealed the former cop, who declared bankruptcy in 1988, sold $6.2 million worth of stock in Taser International, which manufactures stun devices for police and military use — and is pitching its wares to the Department of Homeland Security for use by border agents.

Other embarrassing or questionable incidents involving Kerik were re-examined:

• The assignment of several NYPD homicide detectives to retrieve a cellphone lost by his book publisher, Judith Regan.

• Questions about $1 million in tobacco rebates for cigarettes sold to prisoners while Kerik was correction commissioner.

• His hasty and early exit from Iraq after a huge explosion in Baghdad.

• Kerik also used NYPD investigators to research the murder of his mother, a former prostitute killed when he was 4, for his book. He had to pay the city $2,500 under a settlement with the Conflict of Interest Board.

• In the 1980s, while working as chief of investigations for a Saudi Arabian hospital complex, Kerik allegedly abused his authority to delve into the private lives of women with whom his boss was romantically involved.

George sure knows how to pick 'em...

(Thanks to Fran Drescher On Line) for the Fabulous Fran Collage)