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Here’s my card: Kerik

Peter and Frank DiTommaso

Peter and Frank DiTommaso (Robert Kalfus)

NOTABLE GIFT: Bernie Kerik (above) slipped his PBA card to an architect who worked with contractor brothers Peter and Frank DiTommaso.

NOTABLE GIFT: Bernie Kerik (above) slipped his PBA card to an architect who worked with contractor brothers Peter and Frank DiTommaso. (Reuters)

Peter and Frank DiTommaso (Robert Kalfus)

NOTABLE GIFT: Bernie Kerik (inset above) slipped his PBA card to an architect who worked with contractor brothers (inset from left) Peter and Frank DiTommaso. (
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Disgraced NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik didn’t pay a penny for the $255,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment — but was nice enough to give an architect on the job a Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association courtesy card, it was revealed yesterday.

And its badge had the title “Commissioner of Correction” — Kerik’s title in 2000.

“I thought it was his business card,” architect Mark Manske said in Bronx Supreme Court at the perjury trial of Kerik’s ex-pals, brothers Frank and Peter DiTommaso.

A PBA card has no official use other than letting anyone who sees it know that the possessor may know a cop — but they have been known to be flashed by people to get out of a pickle with police.

The DiTommasos are accused of lying to a grand jury when they denied paying for the renovations that connected Kerik’s two Riverdale apartments in 1999 and 2000 — a project that was among the factors that led to Kerik going to prison through 2013.

Kerik was head of the city Correction Department at the time — and was trying get officials to remove a ban on city contracts being awarded to the DiTommasos’ Interstate Industrial Corp. because of purported mob ties.

Later that year, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani named Kerik police commissioner. In 2004, President George W. Bush nominated Kerik to be secretary of Homeland Security — but that nomination quickly collapsed.

Kerik later was prosecuted for, among other things, lying to White House vetters about the renovations that the DiTommasos paid for.

Manske, who was part of a firm named MDM that was connected to the DiTommasos, testified that one day he met with Kerik, his wife, Hala, and Frank DiTommaso at a Chinese restaurant to discuss the project.

The conversation focused on Hala Kerik’s wishes for the job — and Bernie mainly kept his mouth shut, Manske noted.

“He was being a very good husband that day,” the architect said.

“It was a very strange meeting, and it was a very strange lunch,” Manske told jurors.

DiTommaso became noticeably uncomfortable when the architect suggested to Hala Kerik that she visit the Home Depot Expo supply store, Manske noted. DiTommaso suggested that she instead look at items in MDM’s office — which Manske found odd because the firm’s business was mainly commercial projects.

After lunch, Bernie Kerik handed Manske his PBA card.

Asked if Kerik ever paid for the renovations, Manske said, “To my knowledge, no.”