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Tooth Falls From Crooked Politician's Rotting Mouth Of Lies

Ryan Tate — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:12:59 EST

Tax-evading wiretapper Jeanine Pirro, who might have knowingly tried to put an innocent man in jail this one time, lost a tooth on Geraldo last night when God became tired of her relentless lies and decided to punish her live on Fox News. The tooth, or maybe it was some sort of cosmetic cap designed to fraudulently misrepresent her evil-infested mouth, fell off right when she was saying something about how Democrats aren't really democratic because they have superdelegates. Geraldo just laughed at her and pretended to listen as she kept talking, but then later he said she had "consulted her dentist and is now back from the break ." You'll probably laugh too, at her and not with her:

[TVNewser]

The Jeanine Pirro version of "The People's...

abalk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:40:43 EDT

The Jeanine Pirro version of "The People's Court" is back on. No word on Jeanine's possible appearance in real court. [NYP]

Jeanine Pirro Under (Another) Investigation

abalk2 — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:27:11 EDT

When we last saw Jeanine Pirro, she was in hot water over a jewelry business she had set up with taxpaying-averse husband Al. Now the former Westchester D.A. has bigger fish to fry: Turns out that while she was still in office, she secretly recorded her on-the-job conversations, one of which suggests that she "failed to disclose evidence that could have helped a man whom Ms. Pirro subsequently charged with murder." Oh, also, she asked an investigator to destroy them. And now a federal jury wants to hear more. This brings the number of investigations concerning Pirro up to seven thousand and forty-two (figure accurate as time of writing; there may be a couple more by time of publication). The more we think about it, the more we are starting to regret not electing Neaner as state district attorney. Secret taping, financial shenanigans, withholding evidence, destroying evidence... is there anything she can't do? (Maybe hard time.) —balk

Pirro Accused of Withholding Evidence in Murder Case [NYS]

Jeanine Pirro: Bead Pusher

Chris Mohney — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:40:28 EST

On the heels of good news about her TV show, former politico Jeanine Pirro must now face an bead investigation. As part of a wider probe into her potential wiretapping naughtiness as Westchester district attorney, Pirro's embarrassing hobby of crafting beaded necklaces and selling them to acquaintances has also drawn the feds' attention. (This is, for our money, potentially an even more embarrassing personal quirk than her husband's yacht-bound ass-fingering.) So what's the story on those beads?

Pirro's bead-making enterprise —"JP Styles Inc.," not to be confused with the "korean-American hairstylist, nail tech, tattoo artist, model, musician, and artist" of the eponymous URL — was the kind of thing engaged in by society dames who misconstrue friends' and employees' indulgent purchasing of her handmade crap as a viable business model. The hobby's pathos isn't the issue, however. JP Styles was incorporated in 2002 with help from Pirro's husband's law firm; Mr. Pirro received "miscellaneous" income from the arrangement, though his law license was suspended at the time due to his conviction for tax fraud. The "profits" from this enterprise (there were none, as Jeanine "lost between $10,000 and $20,000") were supposed to benefit My Sisters' Place, a shelter for victims of domestic violence. Pirro must have felt bad about the lack of bead money, as her campaign fund donated $1,475 to MSP in 2003.

No examples of Pirro's beadwork exist online, but please send us pics if you got one of her "pieces." Note that there's a certain risk in exposing your ownership of these hot items, as subpoenas have already gone out to "Pirro acquaintances who bought the jewelry, including at least two Westchester judges." Those people are just the victims, though it's high time people started going to jail for hawking their home-hobby garbage at the office. Unless you'd care to take a look at the these awesome pashminas we made last weekend?

Pirro's jewel of denial in fed biz probe [NYDN via NYM]

Coming Soon to Daytime TV: 'Nooner With Neaner'

abalk2 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:40:11 EST

If you want something badly enough, you'll put up with any amount of humiliation to get it: That's the lesson to be drawn from former Westchester D.A. Jeanine Pirro, who suffered through two humiliating statewide campaigns last year in which her incompetence, arrogance, colorful marital life, and association with shady underworld figure Bernard Kerik were put on display so frequently that even some of her greatest detractors had to look away. No matter. The Post is reporting that Neaner has gotten what she wanted all along:

Ex-Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro has inked a deal to host a syndicated talk show, The Post has learned. Brainy Pirro, 55, will be paid around $1 million, which is typical for a start-up talk show with unproven talent.

Pirro's deal with Warner Brothers is for an approximate one million dollars, but "she could make 15 to 20 times that much in the lucrative syndication market." Fifteen million a year? If we were Al Pirro, we'd start getting used to eating dinner alone. Or, you know, with somebody else's wife.

CHAT'S ALL IT IS ON PIRRO'S TALK SHOW [NYP]

Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Jeanine Pirro

Goodnight, Sweet Neaner

Chris Mohney — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:10:06 EST

We'll miss you, Jeanine Pirro. You lost the New York attorney general's job to Andrew Cuomo, who's just garden variety sleazy on occasion. How could anyone compare to your wire-tapping amore? Your relentless belligerence when caught in impropriety? Your weakness for man about town and fellow disgraced politico Bernard Kerik? You even inspired us to song. Despite a wooden attempt at reconcilation with her estranged nutty husband, most predict at least a future in TV for Pirro. She's brave enough to wear red, so anything is possible.

Pirro Lights Up Her Crowd Even As She Concedes Race [NY Sun]

Cindy Adams Won't Shut Up About What She's Not Telling You

abalk2 — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:30:29 EDT

Yeah, okay, that Cindy Adams piece on Neaner: We didn't want to read it any more than we wanted to read the New York piece, but you people can be so damn insistent. So here you go: Cindy is friendly with the Pirros. She knew a lot of stuff that she wouldn't print because she's a good friend. Then Al went and blabbed to New York, so now she can tell you everything that New York told you, i.e., the Pirros have a troubled marriage, Neaner worries that Al is "doing it" to his lawyer's wife, Al swears a lot, mostly while he's eating dinner alone. You can sort of tell that Cindy's pissed, but not pissed enough to give you anything good. In fact, there are exactly two interesting things about this piece: One, an agitated Jeanine apparently speaks in the exact same clipped-sentence manner in which Cindy writes most of her items. ("I was a kid from Elmira. He was president of his law-school class. Won competitions. Made everybody laugh. We all knew he was a superstar. Dashing, charming, smart, brightest guy I ever met. And generous.") Two: The logo that they break out for a Cindy Adams exclusive is scary as shit.

REVEALED: EXPLOSIVE SECRETS THE PIRROS TRIED TO CONCEAL [NYP]

You Could Poke an Eye Out With That Thing

suki — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:40:00 EDT

So we were trying to milk a few more kilobytes on those crazy in love Pirros and give you a blow by blow of the New York cover story, but then we just couldn't, couldn't get past the opening image.

You tell us what you thought of the piece. Us? We want to look away, but we just can't stop staring at that picture.

Can This Marriage Be Saved? [NY Mag]

Meanwhile, Back on the Yacht, Al Pirro Calls for a Finger Up His Ass, and Immediately

abalk2 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:20:13 EDT

Nice try, Neaner. You should know better than anyone how quickly prosecutors move on things when they're not inclined to do so.

Pirro Calls for U.S. Attorney to Exonerate Her, and Soon [NYT]
Pirro rejected request to re-examine DNA [Journal News]

Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Jeanine Pirro

Pirro Story Gift That Keeps On Giving

abalk2 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:20:37 EDT

The hits just keep coming for the Pirro campaign: Today's Post reports that she was instrumental in steering "a no-bid contract to Bernard Kerik and Rudy Giuliani's security firm, rebuffing protests about the arrangement." Pirro's spokesman rationalizes the sweetheart deal: "In order to guarantee that A & P met her high standards, she wanted to use a best-in-class firm to monitor A & P's compliance with the law." We're inclined to accept that account: when it comes to monitoring, Kerik is clearly Neaner's go-to guy. Elsewhere, Ben Smith notes the following quote Pirro delivered at a recent fundraiser: "I will not be bowed, I will not bend over...", which, if nothing else, goes a long way toward explaining why Al would want to fuck that other broad.

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

Jeanine Pirro: A Story in Song

abalk2 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:10:21 EDT

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times
And he'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand
But if you love him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just a man
Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man
And tell the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man

Of course, we also could have gone with "It Must Be The Money."

Jeanine and Al's 'Pay-&-Stay Pact' [NYP]

Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Jeanine Pirro

'Post,' 'News' Concur: Al Gal Pal Winsome, Tawny

abalk2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:00:30 EDT

New York's two major tabs rarely agree on anything but, in a heart-warming moment of unanimity, they're in accordance on one issue this morning: Lisa Santangelo, the woman with whom Jeanine Pirro suspected her husband was having sleazy boat romp sex, is "stunning." Also "young" and "brunette," although the News finds her "elegant," while the Post, presumably from lack of familiarity with the word, eschews the extra color. Everyone involved is denying that the affair occurred, but if Al Pirro did in fact stick it to Lisa Santangelo, wife of the attorney who represented him in the tax-fraud case that resulted in an eleven month prison sentence, you've got to give him credit: It's rare that you can screw two lawyers simultaneously without fucking either of them.

Meanwhile, we're still waiting on transcripts of the Kerik-Pirro confab. It seems a little unfair that the feds will leak to WNBC but not to us.

Jeanine feared fling with family pal [NYDN]
JEANINE'S FEAR OF 'OTHER LADY' [NYP]

Related: The Pirro saga simplified [Room Eight]

Jeanine Pirro: Probe Me? Probe You!

Chris Mohney — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:20:57 EDT

Republican candidate for New York state attorney general Jeanine Pirro may have the worst luck of any would-be politician ever, but that doesn't mean she can't deliberately act to make things even worse. Faced with — and admitting to — a probe regarding her conversation with disgraced former police commissioner Bernard Kerik about planting a bug on her husband's boat to catch his philandering, Pirro has chosen to go on the offensive. At a press conference today, an angry Pirro exclaimed, "There needs to be a federal investigation of the felony of leaking sealed court documents ... That's the only crime that occurred here. And it's an outrage to the people of this state." Outrage heaped upon outrage! However, what we'd really like to see is the transcript of those recorded phone calls to Kerik, as an agitated Pirro is said to describe her naughty husband-bugging intentions in "profanity-laced terms." No luck finding the transcripts online, but if you see 'em, let us know.

NY AG Candidate Vows to Stay in Race [AP]

Jeanine Pirro: Sympathy for the Devil

abalk2 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:41:24 EDT

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]

Jared Kushner Just Not That Into You

Chris Mohney — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:30:25 EDT

New York Observer owner Jared Kushner may have enjoyed this schmooze with Marisa Tomei and Lili Taylor last month, but one skirt he's definitely not chasing is that of GOP state attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro. Kushner's presence on a "host committee" for a Pirro breakfast isn't really a level of intimacy he's, y'know, comfortable with right now:

Kushner said his appearance on a Pirro host committee was a "miscommunication" between his office and Pirro's, and that he's not giving money to candidates in his new, media mogul capacity.
A Pirro campaign source says they were under the impression, from a conversation with Kushner, that he'd given his support.

No means no, Jeanine.

Kushner, De-Pirroed [NYDN]
[Photo: Getty Images]

Jared Kushner Endorses Only Cause More Hopeless Than Newspaper Business

Chris Mohney — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:15:21 EDT

"Next" you say? New York Observer owner Jared Kushner's record of federal campaign donations have been all straight-line Democratic — senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, even the defenestrated Joe Lieberman. So what's he doing on the hosting committee for a shakedown breakfast in honor of Jeanine Pirro, doomed Republican candidate for attorney general? She's 17 points down in the polls to Andrew Cuomo, and has the faithful support of basically no one, including her own party. Seems doubtful that Kushner would bother to plant pro-Pirro bias at the Observer, though the paper certainly doesn't mind sticking it to Cuomo. (In the Observer's defense, Cuomo is usually more than capable of sticking it to himself.) Perhaps Kushner admires Pirro's courageous stand against pedophiles. One can only help that Kushner is just doing Pirro or someone in her campaign a solid by throwing a little pity-cash her way.

NYO's Kushner for Pirro [NYDN]

New York Politics: Gay Terrorists Want To Rape Your Babies

abalk2 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:00:13 EDT

It's apparently Pedophile Day in state politics: The News' Ben Smith notes a controversy concerning the image above, used in a flier by failed Attorney General candidate Sean Patrick Maloney. Gay City News claims that the image perpetuates a stereotype of gay men preying on young boys. Smith finds the concern "overwrought," wondering how we even know the predator in the picture is supposed to be gay. (It's the hair, Ben.)

Meanwhile, Republican Attorney General candidate Jeanine Pirro (a great joke about whom can be found here), "held a news conference outside the Capitol calling civil confinement for sex offenders 'the most important public safety issue of our time.'"

Asked if it was really a more important public safety issue than terrorism, Ms. Pirro, the Republican candidate for attorney general, said: "You know what, I think as it relates to New York families, to parents with children - I mean, we hear far too often about, you know, certain names that strike fear into the hearts of every parent. I mean Megan Kanka, Polly Klass, Jessica Lundsford, Sarah Lunde, I mean kids in their own homes, in their own beds, being abducted and kidnapped and murdered by sexually violent predators. Terrorism, obviously, is an overwhelmingly important issue for safety in New York. But as it concerns families, there isn't a family that I come across that isn't concerned about children going to school and possibly being abducted or confronting a sexual predator.''

Huh. We would have said that the biggest concern about children going to school was that they might possibly be run down by Al Pirro. Guess it's all about priorities.

Blood Libel? [NYDN]
Pirro on the Threats of Our Day [NYT]
Pirro tells of ire over husband's speeding ticket [Journal News]

Reminding You There's Someone Running Against Hillary...

Jesse — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:40:23 EST

We've always imagined that the hardest part of being a political flack — or any sort of flack, really — is having to pretend to believe in someone and his cause just because he's the guy signing your paychecks.

Which is why it must have been great news for Jeanine Pirro — the Ferrer running against Hillary's Bloomberg, if you've forgotten — when she found a new spokesman, Andrea Tantaros.

The Politicker yesterday found some of Tantaros old work, from her days as a college-newspaper columnist at Lehigh. And one particular column really got 'Ticker's heart racing. Some excerpts:

Yup, I guess Mrs. Clinton realizes that her time as first lady is coming to a close and this power-hungry monster feels she and her husband didn`t do enough damage to our country as a whole, so she needs to ruin New York.

Besides the fact that she isn't even from New York and has never even lived or been educated there, Mrs. Clinton is a power-hungry congenital liar....

'Hill' has been involved in multiple scandals (probably) more than all of the first ladies combined) and has lied probably about as many times as her husband has dropped his pants....

Oh, we can't forget the most famous, Whitewater. This was the Clinton's real-estate scam in Arkansas that ended up costing us taxpayers $69 million and White House Deputy Vincent Foster's life. (He was found dead in a nearby park in the heat of the scandal.)

And here we were thinking Republicans were nutcases. How silly of us.

Tantaros in Training [The Politicker/NYO]
A Dose of D.C. [The Brown & White]

Tax Fraud, Shmax Fraud

Jesse — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:19:07 EDT

News comes today that Jeanine Pirro, the Westchester Country district attorney, will run against Hillary Clinton for U.S. Senate. They're both hard-charging, well-known, charismatic women. And they both have husbands who've been in the public eye. "Ms. Pirro's advisers also believe that in a Senate race," observes the Times, "the candidates' husband issues could cancel each other out."

Let's consider these "husband issues."

• Bill Clinton was a two-term president of the United States, reelected in 1996 by 8.5 percentage points. He had a favorability rating of 56 percent the last time Gallup polled on the question, earlier this year.
• Albert J. Pirro Jr. was convicted of income-tax fraud in 2000 and spent 11 months in jail.

Sure, they totally cancel each other out.

High Profile Prosecutor to Run Against Clinton [NYT]