Jeanine Pirro, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, was the replacement for a pick by President Donald Trump who couldn’t make it through the Senate confirmation process to keep the job. But a controversy during Pirro’s time as a New York suburban district attorney that put her prosecutorial impartiality into question could threaten her prospects too, should Trump decide to make the nomination official.
For those in the well-to-do New York City suburb of Harrison, the 2002 death of 17-year-old Rob Viscome is an unforgettable tragedy. But it’s what happened immediately afterward that turned some locals against their elected prosecutor, damaging Pirro’s public image ahead of her failed Senate run against Hillary Clinton.
Raymond Viscome, the boy’s uncle and a carpenter in town, told NOTUS it took 13 years for the emotional turmoil and physical pain to subside.