Ex-Olympian falsely accused in 'meritless' Reflecting Pool vandalism prosecution wants inspectors general to investigate Jeanine Pirro for 'misconduct'

Inset left: Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn listens arsenic his lawyer Norman Eisen speaks aft helium pleaded not blameworthy to allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Thursday, July 9, 2026, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.). Inset right: U.S. D.C. Attorney Jeanine Pirro astatine a property league astatine the Department of Justice gathering successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday, February 6, 2026. (Photo by Annabelle Gordon/Sipa USA). Background: The Lincoln Memorial and drained Reflecting Pool arsenic seen from the Washington Monument connected July 20, 2026 successful Washington, DC (Photo by Emily Alff/Sipa USA).

Fresh disconnected the Trump administration's nonaccomplishment to prolong the "meritless" prosecution against the erstwhile Olympic canoeist falsely accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the erstwhile suspect successful that lawsuit is present asking for an interior authorities watchdog probe into U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

In the underlying case, the Department of Justice yet stood down but asked for the accidental to record charges against David Hearn again sometime successful the future. In the order dismissing the lawsuit with prejudice, the justice noted that "no transgression had occurred" and that the authorities itself, wrong a period of filing charges, "recognized that its prosecution lacked merit."

Now, successful an open letter, Hearn's attorneys are asking some the inspectors wide for the DOJ and the Department of the Interior to find retired however it each went incorrect — and what relation Pirro played successful "the nightmare" that resulted from "the incompetence and wrongdoing" of employees wrong some the DOJ and the Interior Department.

"From June 19 to the present, misconduct has been committed by unit successful some agencies," the missive reads. "Because of the actions of assorted DOJ and DOI employees, Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a transgression helium did not commit, threatened with incarceration of up to 10 years, and endured the defaming of his sanction and estimation by high-ranking authorities officials."

Among those officials is Pirro, the missive states.

Hearn's attorneys allege Pirro, a erstwhile Fox News host, acted with "unusual haste" and initiated a prosecution "shaped from the outset by governmental unit and built connected an inadequate investigation."

The missive claims those inadequacies were intentionally papered implicit by Pirro and her unit to appease Donald Trump.

"At a minimum, by their ain admission, the prosecutors knew that the grounds was incomplete and seemingly knew that [the Interior Department] possessed exculpatory material, yet proceeded to the expansive assemblage anyway," the unfastened missive continues. "However, the grounds reflects that the USAO-DC successful information was successful possession of the indispensable exculpatory grounds and simply ignored it."

Hearn's attorneys besides impeach Pirro herself of engaging successful 1 peculiarly egregious lawsuit of misconduct involving an adept witnesser hired by the defence to inspect the memorial pool.

"Accompanied by a radical of equipped authorities agents who positioned themselves astir defence counsel's expert, the U.S. Attorney personally approached the adept portion helium was conducting his inspection and questioned him astir his conclusions, the results of his work, and wherefore helium was present," the missive goes on.

The petition elaborates connected Pirro's alleged wrongdoing:

Even aft the defense's adept advised the U.S. Attorney that helium could not talk to her astir the matter—and members of her ain unit cautioned her not to inquire him specified questions—the U.S. Attorney repeatedly pressured the defence adept to supply her with information. Defense counsel was fixed nary announcement that the brushwood would instrumentality spot and was not contiguous for it, and the authorities has ne'er produced immoderate report, note, oregon grounds of the exchange.

That behaviour is grounds of misconduct "committed astatine the highest levels" of the U.S. Attorney's Office, the missive says.

"A U.S. Attorney who personally interrogates a represented defendant's testifying expert, surrounded by her ain unit and without announcement to counsel, is not gathering evidence—she is investigating however the defence intends to beryllium its case, and doing truthful successful a mounting that fundamentally held the adept captive," the missive continues.

To that end, Hearn's attorneys privation the offices of the inspectors wide (OIG) to  find who was astatine this encounter, what Pirro said, and whether the U.S. Attorney's Office "considered the propriety of it earlier oregon aft the fact."

The missive besides criticizes Pirro for a bid of nationalist statements made astir Hearn successful which she described the alleged behaviour arsenic "anarchy" and "criminal behavior."

Seeking a wide mandate for the watchdogs, Hearn's attorneys privation investigations into some the readying and implementation of the renovation task itself arsenic good arsenic the investigation, apprehension and prosecution.

"The DOJ OIG and the DOI OIG indispensable behaviour elaborate and broad investigations to find what happened wrong their agencies that led to the shocking and indefensible attraction of Mr. Hearn," the missive reads astatine 1 point. "DOJ OIG and DOI OIG each person chiseled but complementary responsibilities to find what occurred wrong their respective departments; whether applicable laws, policies, and nonrecreational morals were followed; and the circumstantial instances of incompetence and misconduct engaged successful by authorities personnel."

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