NEW U.S. ATTORNEY JEANINE PIRRO SIGNED THE FRAUDULENT TAX FORMS THAT GOT HER HUSBAND A FELONY CONVICTION -- WHEN SHE WAS A D.A.

The new interim U.S. attorney for D.C. is Jeanine Pirro, one of President Trump's favorite Fox News stars. You probably know about her Trump sycophancy, which is extreme even by Fox standards:



You probably know that Fox pulled her off the air in late 2020 because she was spreading bizarre (and actionable) conspiracy theories about the election. You probably know that she was previously suspended by Fox for Islamophobic comments about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Maybe you know that she once referred to immigrant children as "a lower level of human being."

But I want to get into the gutter and talk about her marriage.

Jeanine Pirro was married to Al Pirro from 1975 to 2013. She was a judge of the Westchester County Court from 1991 to 1993 and the county's DA from 1994 to 2005. Which meant that she was DA -- and, later, a candidate for New York state attorney general -- long after her husband's 2000 conviction on felony tax fraud charges. The returns in question were joint returns, which she co-signed, as New York magazine noted in a 2006 story:

Of course, Al and Jeanine’s tax forms (they co-signed the returns) were fraudulent. Al’s businesses—he had 32 single-purpose entities, one for each real-estate deal—took about $20 million in deductions. The government alleged that about 5 percent of those really were personal. Some of the personal expenses charged to businesses were tantalizing. There was an anniversary stay at the Plaza, $1,800 grillwork for the pet pigs’ pen, a $4,450 portrait of their two children, Al’s $123,000 Ferrari 348 Spider convertible, even $70,000 to fight Al’s paternity suit. (Al claimed he had to fight. The mother is a convicted embezzler who’d listed another father on the birth certificate.)

Did I mention that Al Pirro fathered a child out of wedlock during the marriage?)

The government also discovered a complicated lease structure that allowed Jeanine to claim a Mercedes as hers, though one of Al’s companies paid for it. (One of Al’s companies also picked up the tab for Jeanine’s mother’s Mercedes, which pissed off his own mother.)

The indictment of the sitting D.A.’s husband was extremely embarrassing to Jeanine. That she had co-signed fraudulent personal tax returns was worse. She wasn’t, as critics pointed out, a naïve homemaker. How could she have known nothing? Remember as you're reading all this that the GOP is -- or at least was at the time -- regarded as the party of traditional moral values.

During that run for DA in 2006, the Pirros' values were so embarrassing that even the New York Post wallowed in the story, which also involved adultery and wiretapping. This is from a Post report published in September of that year:

In a devastating blow to her campaign, Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro admitted yesterday she is under federal investigation for discussing with former city Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik how to secretly record her bad-boy husband to see if he was cheating.

Bombshell transcripts of conversations between Pirro and Kerik reveal that an angry Pirro even offered to plant the bug herself on her husband’s boat, where she believed he was having sex with another woman.

“What am I supposed to do, Bernie? Watch him f- – – her every night?” Pirro is quoted as saying on the transcripts, obtained by WNBC-TV. “What am I supposed to do? . . . I can go on the boat, I’ll put the f- – -ing thing on myself.”

U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia ... is looking into whether Pirro engaged in illegal wiretapping, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence....

Thinking that her husband was again cheating on her – he fathered a love child more than two decades ago when the two were married – Pirro admitted she had him followed “to see if what I suspected was true.” ...

Pirro ... belittled the AG’s office she is now seeking, calling it a “been-there-done-that kind of thing.” She said she would have been in the governor’s mansion if it weren’t for her husband....

It was 20 years ago that Pirro abandoned her campaign as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor because of her then-virtually unknown husband Al’s alleged ties to mob-connected companies. And it was almost a year ago that Pirro abandoned her campaign for U.S. Senate – deciding instead to run for attorney general – after her husband secretly worked behind the scenes to undermine her candidacy....

In 2003, [Al Pirro] denied allegations from a suspended Mamaroneck police officer that the department covered up an incident in which Al was stopped while driving drunk. His wife, who was in the car, allegedly demanded special treatment.

In 2004, Al Pirro was alleged by a FBI informant to have bragged to a local Westchester mobster that he was leaking confidential information involving an investigation being conducted by his wife’s DA’s Office.

But -- but -- Hunter Biden!

It will not surprise you to learn that Al Pirro was pardoned by Trump on his last day in office in January 2021. The Pirros had separated in 2007 and divorced in 2013.