Richard C. Pilger is the career Public Integrity prosecutor Bloomberg Law recorded as Craig Donsanto’s successor at the Election Crimes Branch in 2010. House Oversight put his name on Lois Lerner traffic. He resigned that directorship on November 9, 2020, after Attorney General Barr’s pre-certification memo, and stayed at the Department. This page is identity. The episodes live in the posts. This is not a page about John Pilger.
Identity
About Richard C. Pilger
Titles and dates come from Bloomberg Law, a PLI speaker biography (archive), NBC excerpts of his November 9, 2020, letter, House Oversight releases, and later Senate statements. Emphasis is the compiler’s. Identity confidence: medium–high for the Justice Department official as the default public-record match. The domain string does not legally identify him. Other private attorneys named Richard Pilger may exist and are not documented here. Not John Richard Pilger (1939–2023), the Australian journalist and filmmaker. No free-license portrait was used; none was generated.
Documented roles
- Education (PLI bio). B.A., University of Notre Dame; J.D. magna cum laude, Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington. PLI archive.
- Clerkship (PLI bio). Hon. James T. Moody, N.D. Indiana and the Seventh Circuit by designation. Same bio.
- DOJ. Attorney General’s Honors Program; Public Integrity Section trial / senior trial attorney. Same bio.
- About March 2010 / confirmed May 17, 2010. Succeeded Craig Donsanto as Director, Election Crimes Branch. Bloomberg Law.
- Temporary assignments (PLI bio). Legal Advisor, U.S. Embassy Tbilisi; Special AUSA, District of Columbia. Speaker-bio level.
- October 2010 and May 2013. Named in Lerner emails and an Oversight-described meeting about 501(c)(4) enforcement. See the posts.
- November 9, 2020. Resigned the Election Crimes directorship after the Barr memo; remained at DOJ in another capacity. NBC; letter PDF.
- February 2021 return to the directorship. Reported in later encyclopedic and secondary write-ups. No DOJ personnel announcement was located. Treat as reported, not as a press-release fact.
- About July/August 2022. Retirement from DOJ reported in later commentary and a LinkedIn self-description (Illinois private attorney). No Department press release located. Do not invent a current federal title.
What this site is not
It is not a finding that Richard Pilger committed a crime. Emails about possible theories of prosecution are not a conviction. A House interview is not a verdict that he targeted any applicant group. A resignation letter is not a finding about 2020 ballots. A Grassley staff report or whistleblower allegation is not an indictment. No prosecution of Pilger was located.
It is not a site about John Pilger. It is not a White House product. It is not lawsuit-proof. Read the posts.