Female judge’s career ends in disgrace after she lied that she’d taken part in Operation Desert Storm aged SIXTEEN

A glamorous Louisiana judge has been booted off the bench after being caught out in a string of outrageous lies, including about her own military service.

Baton Rouge Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts was removed from her role by the Louisiana Supreme Court in a 4-3 vote, as she was found to have fabricated her background while campaigning to become a judge in 2020.

Foxworth-Roberts became the first judge removed from the bench in Louisiana in 16 years, as justices condemned her ‘tortured explanations and excuses’ while under investigation.

Central to the fabrications that the judge pushed was claims that she was a veteran of Operation Desert Storm – the name for the US-led Gulf War in the early 1990s – despite being aged just 16 at the time.

In ads she ran while campaigning for the bench, Foxworth-Roberts wore military attire and claimed to have risen to the rank of Army Captain, and in one ad she said she was ‘no stranger to being on the front lines during the call of duty.’

But during the investigation into her claims, Foxworth-Roberts initially would not approve the release of her military records, and when they were eventually released it was found that she never served in combat, and had never been deployed overseas.

Despite being found to have fabricated her combat record, Foxworth-Roberts reportedly argued that she played a role in Operation Desert Storm because she worked with veterans of the war at the Walter Reed Medical Center.

Beyond the allegations of lies about her military service, the investigation also found she falsified some information on a $40,000 insurance claim about a robbery in 2020.

Baton Rouge Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts has been booted off the bench after being caught out in a string of outrageous lies, including about her own military service

The Louisiana judge was blasted by justices for her ‘tortured explanations and excuses’ after she was found to have fabricated her military service, including claiming to have served in the Gulf War despite having never been deployed overseas

In the investigation into Foxworth-Roberts’ insurance claim, it was found that she had claimed around $40,000 in jewelry and expensive goods were stolen from her car during a break-in.

According to NOLA.com, police bodycam footage showed the judge told officers that the theft happened outside her home, but she told her insurance company that the break-in happened miles from her home while she was out campaigning.

The judge initially told investigators with the Office of Special Counsel that she didn’t submit any insurance claim after the break-in, but later admitted that she had done so with USAA, the judiciary body said.

Officials also said that goods she reported stolen to police were different from those she reported to the insurance company, including adding an engagement ring to her insurance claim that she didn’t tell police about.

The Judiciary Commission said that Foxworth-Roberts admitted during the investigation that she had made up her claims about being promoted to captain in the army.

However, the body alleged that the judge lied to investigators on several occasions while she was being scrutinized, including her initial statement that she never submitted any insurance claim at all following the break-in of her car.

Retired Jefferson Parish Judge Melvin Zeno, who served as a hearing officer for her case, also said that when he interviewed her for the investigation, he found she had ‘little, if any credibility.’

The Louisiana judge claimed to have been a veteran of Operation Desert Storm (pictured), despite being aged just 16 when the Gulf War took place

Beyond the lies about her military service, the investigation also found Foxworth-Roberts falsified information on a $40,000 insurance claim about a robbery in 2020

Zeno said that he found Foxworth-Roberts repeatedly tried to hide the truth from him, and described her as ‘dishonest and misleading.’

As she was removed from the bench, the Supreme Court said in its majority ruling that her conduct ‘calls into question her honesty and integrity — minimum qualifications the public expects from every judge.’

Writing in the decision to remove Foxworth-Roberts from the bench, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jay McCallum said officials were bemused by her continued attempts to defend herself.

‘Rather than take responsibility for her conduct, (Foxworth-Roberts) has persisted with tortured explanations and excuses,’ he wrote.

‘Therefore, her conduct has done little, if anything, to show remorse or contrition.’

In a statement through Foxworth-Roberts’ attorney, she noted that ‘opinion was very close with a strong dissent favoring a substantially reduced penalty.’

‘Judge Foxworth-Roberts acknowledged that she should have done a better job of supervising her campaign material and discipline was expected. We note that the claim of insurance fraud which was the original anonymous complaint was found not true. There has not been a decision on any further legal steps.’