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“Judge Jeanine” could be headed to traffic court — as a defendant.
Fox News personality and former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro was busted for driving 119 mph — nearly twice the legal speed limit of 65 mph — in upstate New York, cops said on Monday.
The outspoken ex-prosecutor was barreling along Route 17 in a 2017 Cadillac when a trooper stopped her at around 1:15 p.m. Sunday in the town of Nichols in Tioga County, State Police said.
Pirro’s mom, Esther Ferris, said her alleged lead-foot daughter, who hosts FNC’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” was on her way to visit when she got stopped.
The older woman lives in Elmira and is battling cancer.
“I am so sorry I made her speed like that. She’s too much concerned about me,” Ferris said.
“She’s very much concerned about my illness. I’m dying of cancer.”
Jeanine, 66, was slapped with a speeding ticket and allowed to continue on her way, cops said.
If she doesn’t plead guilty by mail, she is due in Nichols Town Court Jan. 8.
In a statement released by Fox News, Pirro said, “I had been driving for hours to visit my ailing 89-year-old mom and didn’t realize how fast I was driving.
“I believe in the rule of law, and I will pay the consequences.”
Under state law, a conviction for speeding more than 40 mph over the limit results in an assessment of 11 points against a driver’s license — enough for an automatic suspension of driving privileges.
Speeding more than 30 mph over the limit carries a fine of at least $360 and as much as $600, as well as up to 15 days in the slammer.
Pirro’s road woes come more than a decade after her then-husband, Al Pirro, was slapped with back-to-back speeding tickets during two months in 2006.
The second ticket accused him of driving 51 mph in a 25-mph school zone in White Plains.
At the time, Jeanine Pirro was in the midst of a failed campaign for state attorney general, and a political aide suggested her hubby had been selectively targeted, claiming that his black Mercedes-Benz was keeping pace with the cars around him.
Al Pirro had to disclose the tickets when he successfully sought reinstatement as a lawyer following a $1 million tax-fraud conviction that sent him to federal prison for 11 months.
Jeanine Pirro served as a county judge before becoming Westchester DA and going on to TV fame.