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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia<\/a>, has filed a $250,000 negligence lawsuit against her suburban hometown north of New York<\/a> City and a power utility after claiming she tripped and fell while out walking.<\/p>\n Pirro said she tripped over a large wooden block protruding from a steel plate in a roadway on Aug. 28 in the Westchester County<\/a> city of Rye<\/a>, just weeks after she was confirmed as the Trump<\/a> administration\u2019s top prosecutor for the District of Columbia. <\/p>\n The plate was covering excavation related to gas-main work for Consolidated Edison, according to an amended complaint filed Wednesday in state court.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a result of defendants\u2019 negligence, Ms. Pirro sustained serious personal injuries, including but not limited to bruises and contusions to the head, eye, face, and shoulder areas, together with pain, discomfort, and limitation of movement,\u201d according to the complaint, initially filed last month.<\/p>\n The 74-year-old former Fox News host was confined to bed, required medical attention and \u201ccontinues to experience pain and suffering,\u201d according to the filing. <\/p>\n Representatives for Pirro, Con Ed and Rye declined to comment on the pending litigation Thursday. <\/p>\n In a motion to dismiss the claim, an attorney for Rye wrote that it \u201ccan hardly be said that the City was negligent in a duty to pedestrians at a location that was not a pedestrian walkway.\u201d An attorney for Con Ed wrote in a separate court filing seeking dismissal that all the dangers and risks related to the incident \u201cwere open, obvious and apparent.\u201d<\/p>\n Pirro has served as both a judge and the district attorney for Westchester County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-132201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}