An official in Louisiana has said that a conservative judge should be removed from the bench for “egregious unethical conduct” related to lying about her time in the military.
It is said that District Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts lied when she said she was a Captain and had been sent overseas to fight in Operation Desert Storm and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During her bid to become a judge and later during an investigation into her behaviour, she made false claims about her service.
Special Counsel Michelle Beaty agreed with the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana in a report seen by The Independent that Foxworth-Roberts should be removed from her job as judge and made to pay for the probe.
The brief said, “There was a lot of evidence that Judge Foxworth-Roberts’s actions were egregious and unethical, calling for a harsh punishment.”
“Judge Foxworth-Roberts’ egregious wrongdoing, including her severe lack of cooperation, was planned, intentional, and done in bad faith to further her own self-interests and stay hidden.”
They ran as Democrats for a bench seat in 2020. Foxworth-Roberts won. Foxworth-Roberts said in at least one ad that she stood for “conservative family values,” even though she wasn’t running for office as a Republican. She then said that she was “pro-life,” “pro-traditional marriage,” “anti-crime,” “pro-military,” and “pro-veteran.”
Police said that Foxworth-Roberts’s repeated claims that she was a captain were one of the most serious accusations. This claim was very important to her campaign and was used a lot in ads and news stories.
It was said in the special counsel’s brief that the judge had given investigators “misleading, incomplete, and false information” and had ignored requests and subpoenas for her military records.
It was up to the investigators to get the information from the Army.
She likewise “lied in her sworn statement to the [Office of Special Counsel], claiming she attained the rank of Captain while serving in the Army,” the brief said. Foxworth-Roberts also “failed to achieve the rank of Captain twice, requiring her separation from the U.S. Army Reserves at the rank of First Lieutenant.”
When Foxworth-Roberts ran for office in 2020, she put up an ad in a newspaper that said she had been in the U.S. Army for 13 years as “both an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer during the Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars.”
The report said that Foxworth-Roberts would have been only 16 years old during Desert Storm since she was born in 1974.
The brief says that Foxworth-Roberts lied to the cops about where she thought her car had been broken into when she filed an insurance claim for a diamond ring.
Police told Foxworth-Roberts that a $19,000 diamond ring had been stolen from a car. The OSC says the judge tried to hide the fact that she had made a claim and lied to the agency about the losses she really claimed.
The Judges’ Commission will hear from Foxworth-Roberts on May 23.