Jeanine Pirro’s 2006 Senate Committee Ignored Election Laws and Still Owes Big Money to Creditors

The former Fox News host is Trump’s newest pick to be U.S. attorney for Washington D.C.

Jeanine Pirro
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The tough-on-crime, former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro — President Donald Trump’s new pick for interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. — led a political committee that repeatedly flouted election laws and stiffed numerous creditors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Pirro’s 2006 U.S. Senate campaign failed for years to file mandatory financial reports with the Federal Election Commission, despite repeated warnings from regulators, federal records show.

The Pirro committee’s $600,000 in total debts involved nearly two-dozen creditors, including Mercury Public Affairs ($37,640), Verizon ($1,859.28) and the U.S. Postal Service ($1,627.30).