Jeanine Ferris Pirro is the host of Fox News Channel’s Justice with Judge Jeanine. She was also the first female judge elected in Westchester County, New York. She briefly sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate to run against Hillary Clinton in 2006, but dropped out to accept the nomination for New York Attorney General. She is married to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s former chief of staff, Michael Spitzer. She has a daughter and a son-in-law with whom she has a son, Michael Pirro, a New York City real estate developer.
About Jeanine Pirro in brief
Jeanine Ferris Pirro is the host of Fox News Channel’s Justice with Judge Jeanine. She was also the first female judge elected in Westchester County, New York. Pirro briefly sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate to run against Hillary Clinton in 2006, but dropped out to accept the nomination for New York Attorney General. In 2018, she authored the book Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy. Her husband was later convicted of several felonies tied to organized crime and conspiracy, including tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes. She is married to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s former chief of staff, Michael Spitzer. She has a daughter and a son-in-law with whom she has a son, Michael Pirro, a New York City real estate developer. She also has a step-son, Michael Ferris, who is a New Jersey real estate investor and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s deputy state attorney general. She currently lives in New York with her husband and their son. She lives with her daughter and her husband in the town of Chappaqua, New Jersey, where she has two daughters and one son, both of whom live with her mother and step-daughter. She and her son have a daughter who lives with their mother in New Jersey and has two step-children who live with their father in New Hampshire. She now lives in Florida with her son and her daughter- in-law, and has a grandchild with her step-child, who also lives in Chappaquah, New Hampshire, and a granddaughter with her parents.
She works as a lawyer for a law firm in Albany, NY. She previously worked as an assistant district attorney and as the first chief of the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Bureau. She had a strict policy against dropping cases at a victim’s request. She attracted widespread attention for rushing to conduct a bedside investigation of Maria Amaya at the Intensive Care Unit of United Hospital in Port Chester. Amaya had been charged with four counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of her four children and attempted suicide, believing that they were being corrupted by drugs and sex. In 2005, Pirro boasted to colleagues that she had never lost a real case in 50 trials. She said that when presented with the real number, she would say, ‘about 50’ Pirro was known to be an aggressive bureau chief. In 1999, he critiqued Pirro as ‘bright and capable’ and someone who ‘plays hardball seeking publicity, but who was also self-centered in everything she does’ She was later criticized for her relative prosecutorial absence in bringing charges involving major public corruption or public crime. She claimed sole responsibility for the establishment of the domestic violence and child abuse bureau. In 1978, he appointed Pirro to be the first Chief of the new Domestic Violence Bureau. In 1989, she was appointed as the head of the New York State Department of Health and Human Services.
You want to know more about Jeanine Pirro?
This page is based on the article Jeanine Pirro published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 07, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
