After 3 Years in Prison, Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik Returns Home to Franklin Lakes

Bernard Kerik returned to his Franklin Lakes home Tuesday afternoon after serving three years in prison on a 2009 corruption conviction.

Kerik was released from a federal prison in Maryland early Tuesday and arrived home at around 1 p.m., where he was greeted by waiting relatives. He did not speak to reporters.

The former homeland security chief nominee was planning to spend his first day back at his Bergen County home sharing a meal with more than a dozen guests, Albert Manzo, who reportedly catered the homecoming, told NBC New York.

"He put a request in for some food that he's been missing for a few years," said Manzo, who along with his wife, Caroline Manzo —one of the stars of the Real Housewives of NJ —runs the Brownstone in Paterson. "He loves our short ribs, shrimp scampi — a lot of things he [didn’t] have access to there.” 

A delivery truck from Brownstone, as well as several guests, was seen pulling up to the home, which was being patrolled by Franklin Lakes police Tuesday afternoon. Though pressed for comment by the several reporters that descended on the Old Mill Road residence, none spoke to the press.

Kerik was released a year earlier than his sentence called for, but will be confined to his home until October, according to the New York Post.

The former New York Police Department boss led the NYPD during the 9/11 attacks, but was later disgraced when he became the first New York City police commissioner ever imprisoned on federal crimes, the Post reported.