Baton Rouge area state judge lied about her military service record and on police reports

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Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts wheeled out an impressive military record as she fought through a tough race in 2020 for a state judgeship in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Newspaper ads billed her as an accomplished veteran who had risen to the rank of captain in the U.S. Army, having served in three wars: Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.

But those were lies, according to the Louisiana Judiciary Commission, which alleges that Foxworth-Roberts violated a host of ethical rules in winning her seat on the 19th Judicial District Court bench

In records made public last week, the commission claims Foxworth-Roberts lied on the campaign trail and to the commission, while also trying to stymie its efforts to determine her true military history.

The commission received those military records in April. They show that Foxworth-Roberts was just 16 during Operation Desert Storm, did not serve in the military in any capacity during that time, never became a captain, and never deployed for combat.

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But wait, there is more.

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Foxworth-Roberts and the Judiciary Commission have tussled over the particulars of her campaign claims, however, most notably her work at the prominent Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland from 1993 to 1996

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Foxworth-Roberts had not gone through nursing school yet when she worked at Walter Reed. There, her primary speciality was as a laboratory specialist, collecting and processing blood, the commission found.

She repeatedly rebuffed efforts from the Office of Special Counsel – which investigates judicial misconduct – to obtain her full military records, according to the commission. Once it received them on its own, the commission filed new misconduct charges against her.

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Foxworth-Roberts has previously faced questions from oversight boards as both an attorney and as a nurse.

During the same race that has drawn the commission’s attention, her campaign ran advertisements calling her “The People’s Judge.”

The Louisiana Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee found that by referring to herself as “the peoples’ judge,” she misrepresented her identity by implying she was already a judge.

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The Judiciary Commission has also questioned a car burglary that Foxworth-Roberts reported while she was on the campaign trail.

Foxworth-Roberts said burglars stole thousands of dollars’ worth of luxuries from her car in February 2020 in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood. But she moved her car several miles away to her house before she reported the crime, according to court filings.

When she called police, she did not tell them her car was burglarized several miles away, and when police showed up at her home, she said the break-in had occurred while her car was parked “like this,” in her driveway. The Judiciary Commission reviewed police body camera footage of the encounter.

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“Despite the officer’s suggestion that your neighbors could be asked if they had cameras operating during the timeframe of the burglary, you made no effort to clarify that the break-in occurred several miles away,” the court documents say.

Foxworth-Roberts’ lawyers said in response that she acknowledged how law enforcement “could have been left with the impression that her vehicle was burglarized while parked on her driveway.” But they denied that she made false statements to the police

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The Judiciary Commission’s investigation later found that she filed two homeowner’s claims, including one for her diamond engagement ring, which she did not report to police.

“You have engaged in a serious pattern of providing misleading information, making false statements, evasiveness, and noncooperation throughout your campaigns for judicial office and your subsequent dealings with the Office of Special Counsel and the Judiciary Commission,” the court filings say.

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Not a good record here. There seems to be a pattern of lies.