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March 27, 2012
Al Pirro: Forest City Ratner (ex-)lobbyist, lawyer, and dinner guest from Mob Wives (according to the Post, though he denies it)
Atlantic Yards Report
Al Pirro--lawyer, lobbyist, and estranged husband of former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro--was a small but not unimportant character in the federal corruption trial involving former Yonkers City Councilwoman Sandy Annabi and her mentor, political fixer Zehy Jereis.
(The jury's still deliberating, by the way, after two full days.)
Pirro served as a lobbyist for developer Forest City Ratner, which desperately needed Annabi's vote to get its Ridge Hill retail/residential project passed.
While Pirro was mentioned in testimony by several witnesses, he was never called to testify himself--perhaps because prosecutors recognized that, with his felony record of tax fraud (and rumors of mob ties), Pirro might be red meat to defense attorneys.
A boozed-up dinner
Now, according to the New York Post, there's another reason to be wary of Pirro: he can be a nasty, threatening drunk.
NoLandGrab: Only the classiest for Forest City Ratner!
Posted by eric at March 27, 2012 11:14 AM