U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro could be in line for a private dressing down by a federal magistrate for wasting the court’s time with multiple frivolous federal charges that either get dropped at the last minute or flop in front of federal grand juries.
Reacting to federal Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui blowing up on DOJ prosecutors for pulling another last-minute dropping of federal charges ordered by Pirro on Thursday, a panel of legal experts on MSNBC suggested the Trump appointee should expect a courtroom appointment with the judge in the near future to explain her actions.
As MSNBC’s Lisa Rubin explained, Faruqui, a former D.C. federal prosecutor himself, lost his temper on Thursday after charges against Eduardo Dana, who was accused of making death threats against Trump last month, were dropped thirty minutes before a hearing after the accused had already spent a week in jail.
Faraqui took pity on Pirro’s prosecutors for their boss putting them in the position of having to drop another case, and stated from the bench that he is “beyond outraged that the court was being used and abused” by the controversial ex-Fox News host's actions.
He added, “It's not fair to me to say they're losing credibility. We're past that point in my life as a federal prosecutor and I will say, decorated by the prior U.S. attorneys, not myself. I have never then nor now seen in my life the volume of motions to dismiss federal criminal complaints.”
That led former Federal Judge John Jones to tell the panel, “The next stop for Jeanine Pirro might be to Judge Faruqui's courtroom, like it or not, and there are no TV cameras there, and they might have an interesting conversation.”
“I find it, you know, pretty absurd that she projects this on everybody else and not on her folks,” he continued. “I feel badly for the prosecutors in the sense that they're probably taking their orders from the top and what Judge Faruqui said is they're trying to pad statistics, arrest statistics, and that leaves the U.S. attorneys in a very, very difficult position.”
“You know, with Jeanine Pirro, it's absolutely, laughably absurd that she would say that she's not going to try to convince a grand jury what to do,” he added. “U.S. attorneys do that every day. You know the old adage, which, you know, and my panelists know, that you can indict a ham sandwich if you want to. Maybe it's because these cases that are being presented to the grand jury are so laughably thin that you know, even a grand jury with no rebuttal can't find a way to indict people.”
“So I feel sorry for the professionals in the U.S. attorney's office, but they need to listen to what the judge is saying, because this is a clown show,” he recommended.
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