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Subject: U.S. Investigating Pirro's Talk of Taping Spouse - Sept. 28/06
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Article from the Sept. 28/06 edition of the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/nyregion/28pirro.html?_r=1&th=oref&emc..
"U.S. Investigating Pirro's Talk of Taping Spouse
By Patrick Healy
Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Jeanine F.
Pirro, the Republican candidate for state attorney general, and Bernard
B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, illegally taped
conversations of Ms. Pirro's husband last year to determine if he was
having an affair.
At a hastily arranged news conference yesterday, called because of an
imminent television report on the inquiry, Ms. Pirros conceded that she
had her husband, Albert, followed in the summer of 2005. She said she
had discussed bugging the family's boat with Mr. Kerik, an old friend
who was running his own security business. But Ms, Pirro, who was the
District Attorney of Westchester County at the time, said she never
went through with the plan, and she insisted that she broke no laws.
Seething with anger, and choking up as she laid bare her marital
problems, Ms. Pirro said that two federal agents approached her at her
home late one recent night and revealed that the United States
attorney's office for the Southern District of New York was
investigating her surveillance discussions. They had been caught on
tape by Bronx authorities who were conducting a separate investigation
of Mr. Kerik.
With less than six weeks to go until the Nov. 7 election, Ms. Pirro
said she was being hounded by authorities as part of a 'political witch
hunt and smear campaign' led by the same federal lawyer who helped
convict Mr. Pirro of tax evasion in 2000. But the United States
attorney for the Southern District, Michael J. Garcia, a Republican
appointee, issued a statement denying that the inquiry was politically
motivated.
.......
Ms. Pirro, a former three-term district attorney, repeatedly said her
actions were not illegal. Legal experts said the law was murky, and one
important factor was whether the boat, owned by Mr. Pirro, would be
treated the same way as a marital home. Mr. Pirro did not return
telephone calls for comment.
......
The tape recording of the Pirro-Kerik conversation was made by the
Bronx district attorney's office and later provided to the F.B.I. It
was made as part of the investigation into Mr. Kerik's acceptance of a
free apartment renovation from a contractor doing work for the city.
........."
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