Long before he was a Fox News host, who pressed the theories of election conspiracy, Jeanin Piro was an ambitious politician in New York, whose career stopped after being enrolled to think to collect his husband’s boat to get him into the affair.
The revelation shook Piro’s campaign for New York General Prosecutor nearly 20 years ago, which led to the front page titles in the city tabloids (“Being this love boat!” Hicked the Daily News cover).
The conversation took place in 2005 between Piro and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerick, a close ally of Rudy Giuliani.
“What should I do, Bernie? Watch it f — it every night?” Piro said, according to a transcript derived from Jonathan Diest on WNBC-TV in 2006. “What should I do? I can go to the boat. I’ll put something on myself.”
The incident is likely to be renewed now that Piro is the election of President Donald Trump to be a temporary US lawyer for Washington when her election came after the president withdrew the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin, whose defense was criticized on January 6th by some Republican senators.
By declaring a Piro as a choice for Martin’s replacement, Trump described her as “in the class in itself.”
He is right in one sense: it is not known that no other candidate for a lawyer in the US has fallen under a federal investigation after being caught in a cassette to catch an outdoor husband in the law.
The US prosecutor of the South District of New York confirmed the existence of a Piro investigation at the time, but no charges were filed.
Piro was the district prosecutor of Westchestar County when he was caught talking to Kerick, who was under investigation by the Bronx District Prosecutor’s Office.
AFFERS suspicions
According to WNBC, Piro believed that her then husband Albert Piro used the 26-foot boat of the critical family, named after the daughter of the couple for sexual experiences with her then Avtus. Piro seems to be disappointed that an employee of Kerick’s security company is not inclined to plant a ship recording device.
“We can simply say that if there is a problem that I reconstruct it for my anniversary,” Piro said, according to WNBC.
“But Jeanine, I have the same problem with everyone,” Kerick said. “Everyone was panicked because you were you. I went out to a limb. I had two more people who looked at this. That’s a problem.”
At a press conference, after a WNBC report came out, an emotional pyro insisted that no device had been placed on the boat and blasted the federal probe as “losing money from taxpayers”.
“I said a lot of things, but the important thing was what I did and did not do – and what I did was to blow out,” said Piro, who was running for a prosecutor at the time.
Jeanine Pirro in New York in 2006 (Zuma Press, Inc. / Alamy)
Two months after the tapes were opened, she lost the race for the Prosecutor General of the State Prosecutor of the future governor Andrew Quomo in a landslide, noting the end of her political career.
What happened over the next two decades is well known. Piro became a television star and one of Trump’s most ardent defenders.
In 2020, she repeatedly pressed the conspiracy theories in her FOX news broadcast on the loss of Trump’s election. In the course of court disputes filed by the voting systems of the Dominion, it was revealed that the executive producers of Piro sent a dumb assessment to one of its top windows: “This is completely crazy.”
The evolution of the Piro from the once challenged district prosecutor to an election denying Trump Buster reflects the trajectory of other Magi figures, mostly Juliani.
Douglas Musio, a retired Professor of Political Science at Baruch College with extensive knowledge of New York policy, said he finds it “unattainable” that Piro is now about to lead one of the most important federal prosecutors.
“If you were going to tell me 20 years ago or even 15 years ago that she would be in the position she was put in now, I would not believe it,” Musio said. “There were many more people who were familiar with the reputation that deserves more work in terms of qualification than a pyro.”
Harrison Fields, a White House spokesman, called Piro “a very respected and graduated lawyer and judge” who is dedicated to President Trump’s agenda to restore safety and justice in the capital of our country. “
Prosecutor General Pam Bondy described a Piro as a “fearless defender of the rule of law” and said she was “excited to put her in our team at the Ministry of Justice while we were doing America again.”
Kerick did not answer a request for comment.
Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerick in New York in 2024 (Steve Sanchez / Sipa USA via AP file)
Gop
A decade before the lane is released, Piro is regarded as a rising star in the Republican Party.
She was the first woman elected as a judge in 1990 and the District Attorney in Westchester County, in 1993. Her telegenic appearance and distinctive speaking voice made her natural on television.
She developed a reputation of an aggressive prosecutor and twice won re -election. But she was arranged by reports of mafia connections and forced to deal with a stream of scandals involving her ex -husband.
Albert Piro, a rich businessman and fund raising funds, was convicted of accusations of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2000 and sentenced to 29 months at the federal prison. The trial sheds light on the couple’s lavish lifestyle, Daily News reports at the time when Albert Piro “wrote the renovation of holiday homes, a rural club fees, paintings, luxury cars”-including two Ferraris- “and a fence for a pet pigs.”
Five years later, Daily News has published a report that a senior lieutenant in the Gambino crime family has been caught at the FBI eavesdropping that albert Piro has discussed one of the hanging cases of his wife with a mafia.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan were investigating the claim, but no accusations were filed.
Albert Piro denied that such a conversation once took place, and Jeanin Piro told Daily News in May 2005: “I was surprised. It looked incredible.”
Three months later, in August 2005, Piro announced that he would seek the Republican Senate Nomination, which was then challenged by Saint. Hillary Clinton. Days later, her newly constructed campaign was applied when Daily News reported that six donors with organized crime links had written nearly $ 12,000 in the 2003 campaign inspections.
“We will look at the facts and make appropriate decisions on a case -by -case basis,” said the spokeswoman for her campaign at the time.
But these scandals have decreased compared to Kerick’s calls.
Kerick’s phone was accepted as part of an investigation into the acceptance of free repairs in his apartment by a contractor with alleged mafia relations while he was a commissioner of the New York adjustment department. In the end, he pleaded guilty to two offenses.
After the transcript of his telephone conversation with Piro, Kerick Joseph Tacopina’s lawyer told The Daily News: “Bernie talk to a friend in a disaster about internal conflict. Nothing illegal was discussed and nothing illegal was done.”
At that time, Piro’s husband issued a statement through his lawyer: “Al Piro was outraged by conducting an American lawyer at the beginning of a federal investigation into a private marriage dispute.”
Piro split with her husband in 2007. He was pardoned by Trump in 2021.
Trump also pardons Kerick after the former commissioner serves three years in prison on federal accusations of tax fraud and made false statements.
In her conversation with Kerick Piro, she complained about how her husband then affects her political career.
Without him, she said, “I move to the governor’s estate.”
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