Old Trump friend signs first client

lbert J. Pirro Jr., a Westchester lawyer and an old friend of President Donald Trump’s, has signed his first federal lobbying client. He’ll lobby for the Greater New York Hospital Association on “Federal regulations regarding reimbursement of uncompensated medical care pursuant to Medicare,” according to a disclosure filing. (The filing was first spotted by LegiStorm.) Pirro — whose ex-wife, Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro, interviewed Trump days ago — has a checkered past. He spent nearly a year in prison after being convicted of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2000. His firm, the Pirro Group, said he was out of the office and unavailable to comment. At the Hyatt Regency on Wednesday night, where the Women in Government Relations celebrated their 42nd anniversary: Reps. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.); Katie Schubert of CRD Associates, who serves as the president of Women in Government Relations;