RICHARD W. ROBERTS
RICHARD W. ROBERTS
Richard W. Roberts is the Chief of the Criminal Section in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Previously, he was the Principal Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He joined that office in December of 1988. In prior posts, he served for three years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for three years as an associate with the Washington , D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling, and for four years as a Trial Attorney in the Section he now heads.
Among the significant matters for which Mr. Roberts has been responsible during his career as a federal prosecutor include the successful trail of United States v. Joseph Paul Franklin in which Franklin was sentenced to two consecutive life terms of violating the civil rights of two black Salt Lake City joggers in a racially motivated sniper attack resulting in their deaths. For his efforts in that case, Mr. Roberts received a special commendation from the U.S. Attorney General. Mr. Roberts also successfully tried a number of involuntary servitude cases including United States v. Jimmy Convero (child slavery in a religious cult) and United States v. Dennis Warren et al. (peonage, and death of migrant worker forced to work against his will).
His more recent efforts have focused upon financial crimes and corruption and have resulted in the convictions, among others, of a former judge in a $2 million bank fraud scheme (United States v. Henry Fury), a business owner in a 1.8 million tax evasion and currency transaction structuring scheme (United States v. Louis Slomowitg), the leaders of a major multistate car theft ring (United States v. Theodore Trayers, et al.), and the mayor of Washington, D.C. violating the narcotics laws (United States v. Marion S. Barry, Jr.).
Mr. Roberts earned and A.B. degree cum laude from Vassar College in 1974, and in 1978 received and M.I.A. degree from the School for International Training and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. He is a founding member and past deputy general counsel of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Concerned Black Men, Inc. ("CBM"), is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Roberts previously was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he taught trial practice.
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