DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's Egregious Ethics Violations

The following complaint deals with a multitude of violations of the Code of Conduct (a) conduct that seriously interferes with the administration of justice, and (b) conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation, and (c) special responsibilities of a prosecutor. Pirro’s attacks on the judiciary and grand jurors, all of which will be addressed under appropriate headings as set forth herein.

A. Pirro’s Attacks on the Judiciary

Attacks concerning U.S. Judge James Boasberg

• He’s a Barack Obama appointee, an “activist judge.”
• He’s an “activist judge.”
• Judge Boasberg’s order was “untethered to the law.”
• “This judge has put himself at the entrance door to the grand jury, slamming that door shut, irrespective of the legal process, and thus preventing the grand jury from doing the work that it does.”
• “He has neutered the grand jury’s ability to investigate crime.”
• “Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has taken that tool away from us by inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing, evidence.
• "Today, an activist judge in Washington, D.C. has bathed Jerome Powell in immunity by taking the tool of a grand jury subpoena away from our ability to investigate the Federal Reserve.”
• Boasberg’s ruling “makes clear his antipathy toward President Trump.”

Attacks on U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui

Ms. Pirro spewed forth the following false and defamatory statements about Judge Faruqui during a Sept 5, 2025 news conference.

• Judge Faruqui has never really met someone with an illegal gun that he hasn't found some compassion for, OK?"
• “He has repeatedly indicated his allegiance to those who violate the law.”
• “I'll do my job. He should do his job as a judge and leave his politics out of it." 
• “This judge took an oath to follow the law, yet he has allowed his politics to consistently cloud his judgment and his requirement to follow the law. America voted for safe communities, law and order, and this judge is the antithesis of that.”

B. Pirro’s Attacks on Grand Jurors

Pirro’s anger in attacking Grand Jurors emanated in cases she presented wherein the Jurors refused to grant indictments against one or more of her targets.

• “But the grand jurors don’t take it so seriously.”
• DC residents are “so used to crime” and “crime is so normalized” in the District that “they don’t even care about whether or not the law is violated.”
• Pirro attacked grand jurors from so-called “better areas” of DC due to her failure to secure a felony indictment against an ex-Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer.
• In a statement to WUSA9 in August, 2025 Pirro accused grand jurors of becoming “politicized.”

As an aside, in the past, I was a member of the Sacramento County Grand Jury for a one-year stint, therefore, I personally take umbrage at Pirro’s unwarranted and patently untrue statements in attacking the integrity of the DC grand jurors.

In making said patently false statements about the aforementioned judges constitutes repeated violations of Rule 8.4(c), engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation. Said conduct also violates 8.4(d), conduct that seriously interferes with the administration of justice.

Given the egregious nature of her willingness to repeatedly violate the Code of Conduct and in displaying her utter contempt for members of the Judiciary, I would respectfully assert that nothing less than a lengthy suspension and in truth disbarment should be visited upon her by this Committee.