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Jeanine Pirro ensnared by grand jury misconduct questions amid Reflecting Pool fallout

What happened

RawStory reports that lawyers for three-time Olympian David Hearn asked the Justice and Interior departments’ inspectors general to investigate whether U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office improperly secured a felony indictment over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Prosecutors dropped the case after conceding that a botched coating installation—not Hearn—caused the damage. On October 1, D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman dismissed the case with prejudice, preventing prosecutors from reviving it.

According to the lawyers’ letter, the government’s only…

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