Born in New York City on June 26, 1947. Mr. Richter received his B.A. degree,

Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Vermont in 1969. He graduated at the tip of his

class from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972 where he had served as a

comment editor of the Law Review.

Following law school, Mr. Richter spent one year as law clerk to the Honorable Irving

L. Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The following year

he served as law clerk to the Honorable Harry A. Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the

United States.

From 1974 to 1975, Mr. Richter was an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm

of Shea and Gardner where he engaged in a general civil litigation practice. In August 1975

he became an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. In that position

for a little more than three years, he prosecuted scores of criminal cases in Superior Court

ranging from misdemeanor violations to murder and rape cases. He also briefed and

argued over thirty appeals in the local and federal courts of appeal.

In October, 1978, Mr. Richter assumed his present position of Assistant Chief for

Operations in the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division at the United States

Department of Justice. In this position, he has been one of four supervisors in a twenty-five

attorney office whose mission is to prosecute significant political corruption cases throughout

the country. In addition to supervising the work of other trial attorneys, Mr. Richter has

personally handled several very sensitive criminal investigations involving high officials in all

three branches of the federal government. At the Department of Justice Mr. Richter has

received two Special Commendation Awards.

Robert Richter has been a guest lecturer at several area law schools and has

organized and taught at several training seminars for federal prosecutors and investigators

on the subject of political corruption.

Mr. Richter is married to Linda Kay Davis, who presently serves as Chief of the

Criminal Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. They have three sons,

David, Charles and William.