By Choire Sicha 10/09/06 12:00am

Pirro’s Debacle Puts Electroshocks Into Flailing Race

The press has to love the sway of a prosecutor. “I want to say something,” Jeanine Pirro said, at Baruch College, shortly after noon on Oct. 3.

It was at the end of the allotted time for her presentation to the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She had spoken well, coming off Read More

By Choire Sicha 10/09/06 12:00am

Pirro's Debacle Puts Electroshocks Into Flailing Race

The press has to love the sway of a prosecutor. “I want to say something,” Jeanine Pirro said, at Baruch College, shortly after noon on Oct. 3.

It was at the end of the allotted time for her presentation to the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She had spoken well, coming Read More

By Staff 9/28/06 9:15am

Morning Read: September 28, 2006

Lots of Pirro today.

The Post calls yesterday’s news of a federal investigation into Jeanine Pirro over allegations of illegal wire-tapping a “devastating blow to her campaign,” while the Daily News has a sidebar piece – leading with the cancellation of a planned fund-raising appearance by Rudy Giuliani – headlined “Uh, Jeanine, hope Read More

By Staff 9/27/06 6:27pm

Elsewhere: Jeanine Pirro

Tom Golisano returns.

So do some Swift Boat tactics.

But the Republican convention doesn’t.

And picturedto the right is Jeanine Pirro, whose press conference about her husband’s infidelity, her venting to Bernie Kerik, and the fed’s probe into the whole thing…is here.

– Azi Paybarah

By Staff 9/27/06 5:12pm

Pirro in Tears, Not Dropping Out

Pretty dramatic stuff at the Jeanine Pirro press conference at the Sheraton in midtown.

With a story set to break on WNBC, Pirro confirmed to a group of reporters that she iswas under investigation by federal law enforcement officials. They are reportedly looking into an allegation that she had placed an illegal wire-tap on the Read More

By Staff 8/30/06 4:48pm

Michael Caruso, Kerik’s DOI Pal, Sues City

Michael Caruso, a longtime pal of Bernie Kerik and a former employee of the city’s Department of Investigation, has filed suit against the city and the highest-ranking staffers of DOI.

Caruso was at Walker’s restaurant in 1999 when Kerik and Ray Casey, the waste commissioner, had a conversation that was a subject of the Kerik Read More

By Staff 9/02/05 1:06pm

Bernie and New Orleans

Yesterday, as Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff described “isolated criminal misbehavior” while, on the split-screen, anarchy ruled, it was possible to wonder how Bush’s first choice for the job would have performed.

This is local sacrilege these days, after the frenzy of damaging revelations that followed the announcement of Bernie Kerik’s planned appointment.

But does Read More

By Staff 8/12/05 4:22pm

The Politicker’s Source, and a Kerik Connection

Mark Humbert of the AP has a story on Mike McKeon’s allegation that the Pirro mob contributions story comes from the Clintons (rather than, say, from reality). Humbert quotes my vague denial that our source is a Clintonite.

Anyway, for the record, I went back to the source and asked if I could use Read More

By Marcus Baram and George Gurley 12/27/04 12:00am

It’s All Greek to Me

“I was born with a charisma!” Cyprus-born singer Anna Vissi declared. “I don’t sing for money or for fame. I became famous and I became rich, but …. ” She shrugged, rattling the sequins on her vintage 1920′s halter from a Portobello flea market. A sparkly Patricia Field belt held up her black satin Gucci Read More