publisher Judith Regan, who is (having heard of leaks about fellow moral giant former Governor McGreevey's upcoming book) terribly shocked to discover that there are sleazy people out there

"With the lack of ethics in this culture, keeping your word, honoring your agreements, is difficult,” Judith Regan, the publisher of Regan Books, said yesterday. “You never know who’s cheating on you. You can’t control it. You just have to lay back and enjoy the show.”

and if anyone would know everything there was to know about that, it would be Ms. Regan

An apartment in Battery Park City that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik secured for his personal use after Sept. 11 was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping at ground zero, according to a real estate executive who has been briefed about the apartment.

After the cleanup had settled into a routine that fall, the executive said, Mr. Kerik, who was still police commissioner, asked to rent the two-bedroom apartment for his own use. During his use of the apartment, Mr. Kerik and Judith Regan engaged in an extramarital affair there, according to someone who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the relationship. Ms. Regan published his best-selling autobiography in 2001.

Rescue workers were combing through the World Trade Center rubble around the clock when Mr. Kerik called Anthony Bergamo, a well-connected vice chairman of the Milstein family real estate company and a police buff, and asked for help finding a place for the workers to rest during breaks, the executive said.

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According to the executive, Mr. Kerik "went to Bergamo asking for an apartment for emergency service workers."

no, not that part (what, something bothers you about that part?)

The part where Ms. Regan was not the only woman to dally with Mr. Kerik in the warm glow of the fires of hell.

And the other woman wasn't even his wife

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik conducted two extramarital affairs simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park City apartment for the passionate liaisons, the Daily News has learned.

The first relationship, spanning nearly a decade, was with city Correction Officer Jeanette Pinero; the second, and more startling, was with famed publishing titan Judith Regan.

His affair with Regan, the stunningly attractive head of her own book publishing company, lasted for almost a year.

Dramatically, each woman learned of the existence of the other after Pinero discovered a love note left by Regan in the apartment.

The revelations about Kerik's private life come as repercussions over his suitability to be nominated for the post of secretary of homeland security. Kerik, 49, married with two children from his current marriage, withdrew his name from consideration in a sudden and unexpected call to the White House on Friday night.

Shit, you can't trust anybody these days.

For the record, the story which someone dishonorably leaked from Mr. McGreevey's book apparently involved his starting an affair with one of his employees while his wife was in the hospital recovering from a caesarian.

I suspect she wasn't lying back and enjoying it.