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NY AG Candidate Vows to Stay in Race
NY AG Candidate Pirro Calls for Investigation Into Leak of Document, Vows to Stay in Race
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By BETH FOUHY
NEW YORK Sep 28, 2006 (AP)— A defiant Jeanine Pirro said Thursday she is determined to stay in the state attorney general's race and will seek a federal investigation into the leak of sealed court documents regarding her plan to secretly record her husband, whom she suspected of having an affair.
"Ladies and gentlemen, that is a felony. That is the only felony that has occurred in this situation the leaking of sealed court documents," Pirro told the New York Hispanic Clergy Association in New York.
Pirro, a Republican, said she would contact Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to request that a special prosecutor be assigned to determine the source of the leak. And she said she would seek to have an assistant U.S. attorney, who prosecuted her husband on tax evasion charges seven years ago, removed from the case.
Asked if she thought her Democratic opponent, former federal housing secretary Andrew Cuomo, was involved in the leak, Pirro said, "What I can tell you is this: We're going to find out."
Wendy Katz, a spokeswoman for Cuomo, did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. She declined to comment on Wednesday.
Pirro, 55, said she is more determined than ever to stay in the race against Cuomo.
At a packed news conference Wednesday, Pirro acknowledged she was under federal investigation for plotting to record her husband, Albert Pirro, in mid-2005 when she suspected he was having an affair.
"Sometime last year, I came to believe that my husband was seeing another woman," Pirro said. "In the midst of matrimonial discord, I was angry and had him followed to see if what I suspected was true. Although I spoke about taping him, there was no taping by me of anyone. There was anger, and frustration, and disappointment."
Pirro, seeking to become the state's first female attorney general, said the investigation was "highly improper" and politically motivated.
"All I know is that when you start leaking sealed court records 40 days before an election, that's an outrage," Pirro told reporters Thursday.
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