U.S. attorney and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro in the White House Oval office on May 28, 2025 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian/Flickr)
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump hasn't been shy about nominating former Fox News and Fox Business hosts or contributors — who include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, ex-FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and U.S. ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. Another is Jeanine Pirro, now a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) District of Columbia.
According to NOTUS reporter Dave Levinthal, Pirro is investing heavily in Shopify at a time when the e-commerce company is facing legal scrutiny.
Levinthal, in an article published on January 7, reports, "The former Fox News personality-turned-law enforcer recently invested up to $15,000 of her own money in Shopify stock, according to a new Office of Government Ethics disclosure document reviewed by NOTUS. It's part of a flurry of stock trades Pirro has made during the five months since her Senate confirmation to one of the nation's highest-profile prosecution posts.
According to Levinthal, "about half" of the state attorneys general in the U.S. are "pressuring online retail giant Shopify to curb 'unlawful conduct' and 'pervasive illegality' by e-cigarette sellers the company platforms."
"Republicans and Democrats inside and outside of Congress are pushing to ban federal lawmakers — and potentially executive branch officials such as Pirro — from trading stocks at all," the NOTUS reporter explains. "Proponents of congressional stock-ban bills argue that government officials must hold themselves to higher standards than the general public when it comes to avoiding financial conflicts, be they real or perceived. They also cite numerous examples of government officials violating existing stock-trade disclosure laws."
Levinthal notes that Pirro "took steps to avoid financial conflicts of interest just before" the U.S. Senate confirmed her as a U.S. attorney.
"She resigned her positions with Fox News Channel, WABC Radio and Ave Maria School of Law and agreed to divest her financial interests in several companies, including thousands of shares in Ares Capital Corporation, investment house Barings BDC Inc. and Blackstone Infrastructure Strategies LP, according to an ethics agreement she signed in July with the Office of Government Ethics," the NOTUS reporter observes. "But unlike some members of Congress, Pirro didn't voluntarily stop trading stocks altogether. Rather, she made at least 16 individual stock trades between late September and late October, according to Office of Government Ethics records."
Levinthal adds, "At least two of the companies in which Pirro invested faced Department of Justice investigations during President Donald Trump's first term."
Read the full NOTUS article at this link.
