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Anonymous ID: 82dd70 July 26, 2019, 7:39 a.m. No.7199715   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9732

Never heard this name before: Robin Ashton

 

Dig-worthy?

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/VoxDawg/status/1154757077644054528

 

Meet Robin C. Ashton.

 

She was Dir. of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), and used her office to instigate Sessions' recusal.

 

Is the Fix In at Justice? Jan 26th, 2011

 

Announce bad news on a Friday afternoon, the rule in official Washington goes. Attorney General Eric Holder seems to have a new corollary: Make bad appointments over holiday breaks.

 

It works. Holder’s announcement on Christmas Eve that he was appointing Robin Ashton as the new head of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) went virtually unnoticed in the press, other than a highly complimentary article in the Washington Post.

 

That’s unfortunate, considering how important this position is. OPR investigates ethics violations by Justice Department lawyers. It should be headed by someone who does not place partisanship above the law, and who has the highest ethical standards and a sterling reputation. Robin Ashton does not fit that bill. Indeed, Ashton’s antics at DOJ have often been so petty and juvenile that she should be disqualified from serving in any career leadership position at Justice, much less the one responsible for enforcing ethical standards.

 

https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/the-fix-justice

Anonymous ID: 82dd70 July 26, 2019, 7:40 a.m. No.7199732   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7199715

https://www.justice.gov/opr/meet-counsel-0

 

Robin Ashton became the head of the Office of Professional Responsibility in January, 2011. Ms. Ashton began her career at the Department in the litigation section of the Antitrust Division.

She was hired as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia in January, 1991, where she worked until January, 2011. For over a decade, she handled numerous complex appeals in the D.C. Circuit and the D.C. Court of Appeals, prosecuted over 50 felony jury trials and supervised hundreds of grand jury investigations. She then served for five years as the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for Management, where she managed and provided oversight in significant civil and criminal cases and special operations. The USAO-DC is the nation's largest U.S. Attorney's Office, with over 700 employees.

 

Ms. Ashton served on detail as the Deputy Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) at the Department from 2001 to 2005, where she worked closely with the 94 U.S. Attorneys' Offices and provided oversight of the litigation divisions and operational components. From 2005-2006 she served a one-year detail to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 

Ms. Ashton was awarded the Attorney General's Claudia J. Flynn Award for Professional Responsibility in 2013. She received the Attorney General's Award for Outstanding Leadership in Management in 2010. She also was the recipient of the United States Attorney's Award for Meritorious Service in 2010. In 2004, Ms. Ashton received EOUSA's Director's Award for Executive Achievement.

 

Ms. Ashton received her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. from the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law.