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Aof legal eagles has met behind closed doors to hatch a plan to protect the controversial Christopher Columbus statue at Columbus Circle. who is the president of the NYC Chapter of the Columbian Lawyers Association, which is named after Christopher Columbus, held a closed-door meeting with over 100 lawyers and judges from the Confederation of Italian Americans this week to draft a petition that will be sent to City Hall next month. Bertuna is married to Fox News legal correspondent Her group is marshalling legal support to save the statue, which was renovated in 2012 with the multimillion-dollar cost picked up by the city. On Friday, the NYPD assigned security to the statue amid concerns that protestors might vandalize it before Monday’s Columbus Day Parade. We’re told that once Bertuna’s team has drafted their petition, which they hope to have signed by 1,000 members of the legal Happy birthday, Bill! Former New York City, Los Angeles and Boston police commissioner

(below) caught a red-eye out of Las Vegas Wednesday, where he was working as a commentator for NBC following this week’s mass shooting, and made it on time to a Thursday speaking engagement at Curry College in Massachussettes. Also on the agenda was his 70th birthday celebration: Bratton had dinner at Boston’s Mandarin restaurant, joined by his wife, CBS legal analyst

and public relations expert