Feds Probe Pirro on Eavesdropping Charge

[Judi Lynn]

Feds Probe Pirro on Eavesdropping Charge

By MARC HUMBERT
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 4:35 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Republican state attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro said Wednesday she is under federal investigation for allegedly plotting to secretly record her husband to find out whether he was having an affair.

In the draft of a statement she planned to release at a New York City news conference, Pirro said "nothing happened here that is, or should be, the business of the United States attorney's office."

"Sometime last year, I came to believe that my husband was seeing another woman. I was angry and had him followed to see if what I suspected was true," she said in the statement, provided to The Associated Press. "Although I spoke about taping him, there was no wiretapping by me of anyone. There was anger, and frustration, and nothing more."

Pirro, former district attorney of Westchester County, just outside New York City, said that "placing a recording device on one's property to intercept a conversation involving one's spouse is not a crime."
(snip/...)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701378.html

[NOLADEM]

1. Holy Crap

We need to hand out a "Crazy Republican Skank of the Month Award". Seriously.

She is competing with Katherine Harris, who really should have the Award named for her.

This woman has run the second most inept campaign in the country, behind Kah-Razy Katherine.

[LiberalHeart]

2. Feds: eavesdropping on Americans OK; eavesdropping on Pirro's hubby not OK

[kskiska]

3. Why does she remain married to this guy?

He's already had a child with another woman, done jail time for other offenses, has had DUI/speeding charges against him, and now she suspects him of seeing yet another woman. It would be interesting to look up remarks she may have made about the Clinton's marriage.

[Erika]

13. I guess it's more Republican family values

They are a weird lot.

[gratuitous]

4. Difficulty holding onto a man, Jeanine?

And what a catch! A felon who fools around on you. So you hired Bernie Kerik to spy on him. Dahling, you are simply too much.

[KamaAina]

5. Theer's just got to be a cushy job for her with Bush**co

after her campaign officially implodes. (10... 9... 8...) Under Secretary of Naughty Snooping, perhaps?

[Ignacio Upton]

7. She'll probably get a legal show on Faux News

She'll be put on as a counterweight to Nancy DisGrace.

[Roy]

6. No this is not a crime....

"placing a recording device on one's property to intercept a conversation involving one's spouse is not a crime."


It says so right here..... uh... it's spelled out in detail right here uhhhhh..... has anybody seen page 10???

[Ignacio Upton]

8. JEANINE ANGRY!

[LiberalFighter]

15. If I was totally oblivious to politics I still would not want anything

to do with this woman. She is not ugly but there is something about her that doesn't make my little head pop out. She just isn't someone that I would want to have any association.

[kskiska]

9. More details in NYT article

(snip)

Joseph Tacopina, Mr. Kerik’s lawyer, said yesterday that nothing illegal was discussed or done. “Bernie spoke to a friend in distress regarding a domestic conflict,” Mr. Tacopina said.

WNBC said the conversations included profanity-laden rants by Ms. Pirro about her husband, as well as politically damaging remarks. At one point, according to WNBC, she is said to be heard dismissing the attorney general’s job as a “been there, done that kind of thing” for her; at another, she suggests she could be governor if not for Mr. Pirro’s baggage. Ms. Pirro had initially run to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, but pulled out of that race late last year at the urging of party leaders.

Ms. Pirro blamed for the revelations a man far less known to most New Yorkers, Elliott B. Jacobson, an assistant United States attorney who prosecuted Mr. Pirro in 2000 and sent him to jail for 11 months. She said Mr. Jacobson’s motives were “personal and highly improper” and, as a result, federal agents were now “prying into the personal lives of married couples.”

(snip)

The chairmen of the Republican and Conservative Parties, which are both running Ms. Pirro on their November ballot lines, issued statements supporting her candidacy. But these are two parties with a history of sacrificing problematic candidates, and Mr. Giuliani’s move to cancel his Pirro fund-raiser was widely seen by top Republicans as a sign of things to come.

more…
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/nyregion/28pirro.html?hp&ex=1159416000&en=db62685e4242146d&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[keta11]

10. Jeanine Pirro Under Criminal Investigation

SNIP - Because its NY, Good Ole Bernie Kerik and Ghouliani make appearances. You can't make this stuff up!!!
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- NewsChannel 4's Jonathan Dienst has learned Jeanine Pirro, the Republican candidate for New York Attorney General, has been under state and federal criminal investigation.Dienst reported these allegations center on whether Pirro illegally spied on her own husband, Albert Pirro, while she held the office of the Westchester District Attorney.

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Jeanine Pirro suggests, "We can just simply say, if there is an issue, that I am redecorating it for our anniversary.” She complains that Kerik’s man is, “uncomfortable with that.”

Kerik responded by saying, “But Jeanine, I’m having the same f------g problem with everybody. Everybody is panic stricken because it’s you. I’ve gone out on a limb. I had two other people looking at this. It’s a problem.”

Pirro said, “What am I supposed to do, Bernie? Watch him f--k her every night? What am I supposed to do? I can go on the boat. I’ll put the f-----g thing on myself.”


http://www.wnbc.com/politics/9947969/detail.html

[Captain Hilts]

11. Can the NY races get any weirder? nt

[Erika]

12. or trashier? n/t

[keta11]

14. At least we know now why Al Pirro kept getting those speeding tickets

and drunk-driving. He prolly suspected Jeanine had PIs trailing his ass!
Republican family values.

[LiberalFighter]

16. I thought he was trying to get away from her cause she was chasing him

[The Stranger]

17. Well, she's right. Why are the feds investigating this shit?

Instead of investigating crimes, the FBI is involved in political issues? This is tantamount to the Criminal Administration's only de-classifying the parts of the Iraq report favorable to him.

[UTUSN]

18. I just ****LEURVE**** Bernie KERIK threads!!!!1

So PIRRO recruited Bernie on the principle that it takes a philanderer to catch a philanderer? Plus, MSRNC just relayed this story, labelling Bernie as "9-11 HERO"!!!1 I've always wondered what exactly Bernie (and Rudy) did that was "heroic"!!!1

So here's a fond look at what Bernie was doing on 9-11 (stepping out of the shower), and his blast from the past Judith REGAN.

A couple of her men:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

*********QUOTE********

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm (by DUer Gloria: )

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

**********UNQUOTE***********

And I (the poster) will claim credit for insight. Back when KERIK's book for REGAN was debutting, she hosted him on her Faux interview show. His tale was of his missing mother, who inexplicably abandoned him as a tot. She never showed up for a custody hearing. The premise of the book was that this tough uber-male had this hole in his heart, thereby setting the pants on fire of tough wingnuts of all genders. As she probed him about the book, she and KERIK locked smouldering, HOT gazes. Once the mother-thing was done, she moved on to his heroics (which were what?) on 9-11. She asked WHERE HE WAS when the planes hit. Without missing an eye-lock, he said, "Stepping out of the shower." She swallowed and held a long breath. The image of nekkid KERIK was plainly etched on the Faux camera lens during the LONG pause. He added, "In my office." Another LONG pause. He added, "After WORKING OUT." There was another swallow. I suspected BACK THEN that something was cooking between publisher and author, and it weren't spaghetti. Only 2 or 3 years later, when KERIK's many other past deeds floated to the surface like dead bodies did it become official that there was indeed WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE between the two, that the two of them alternated their WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions with WORKING OUT together, that he had used NYPD to track down what happened to his mother, that he used NYPD to provide security for his personal WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions, that the WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVENEST was a city-paid apartment near the WTC intended as a rest site for rescue and recovery workers. The REGAN-KERIK Faux interview was pure musk in the air. Why don't Shrub's handlers hire some of US for intelligence work?