Jeanine Pirro: Bead Pusher
On the heels of good news about her TV show, former politico Jeanine Pirro must now face an bead investigation. As part of a wider probe into her potential wiretapping naughtiness as Westchester district attorney, Pirro's embarrassing hobby of crafting beaded necklaces and selling them to acquaintances has also drawn the feds' attention. (This is, for our money, potentially an even more embarrassing personal quirk than her husband's yacht-bound ass-fingering.) So what's the story on those beads?
Pirro's bead-making enterprise —"JP Styles Inc.," not to be confused with the "korean-American hairstylist, nail tech, tattoo artist, model, musician, and artist" of the eponymous URL — was the kind of thing engaged in by society dames who misconstrue friends' and employees' indulgent purchasing of her handmade crap as a viable business model. The hobby's pathos isn't the issue, however. JP Styles was incorporated in 2002 with help from Pirro's husband's law firm; Mr. Pirro received "miscellaneous" income from the arrangement, though his law license was suspended at the time due to his conviction for tax fraud. The "profits" from this enterprise (there were none, as Jeanine "lost between $10,000 and $20,000") were supposed to benefit My Sisters' Place, a shelter for victims of domestic violence. Pirro must have felt bad about the lack of bead money, as her campaign fund donated $1,475 to MSP in 2003.
No examples of Pirro's beadwork exist online, but please send us pics if you got one of her "pieces." Note that there's a certain risk in exposing your ownership of these hot items, as subpoenas have already gone out to "Pirro acquaintances who bought the jewelry, including at least two Westchester judges." Those people are just the victims, though it's high time people started going to jail for hawking their home-hobby garbage at the office. Unless you'd care to take a look at the these awesome pashminas we made last weekend?
