Bloomberg Law reported on May 17, 2010, that Richard Pilger, a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, had succeeded Craig Donsanto as director of the Election Crimes Branch. That is a trade-press confirmation of a role change. It is not a court finding. It is not a biography novel.
A Practising Law Institute speaker biography, preserved on archive.is, later described Richard C. Pilger as Director of the Election Crimes Branch and previously a senior trial attorney in Public Integrity. It lists a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, a J.D. magna cum laude from Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington, a clerkship with Hon. James T. Moody (Northern District of Indiana and the Seventh Circuit by designation), and entry to the Department through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Those are the speaker’s published credentials. They are not a current DOJ title.
This site treats that 2010 succession as the identity lock for the U.S. official. It does not treat every later private attorney named Richard Pilger as the same person. It does not treat John Richard Pilger, the Australian journalist who died in 2023, as this subject.