About the IIO
Robert D. Luskin has been the Independent Investigations Officer since March 1, 2021. He has decades of experience both in government service and in private practice, with special experience in cases involving allegations of official corruption.
From 1980 to 1982, he was Special Counsel to the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was responsible for legal and policy issues concerning the Organized Crime Strike Force. While at the U.S. Department of Justice, he helped supervise the ABSCAM investigation, and subsequently has represented senior government officials of both parties in criminal cases involving allegations of public corruption. He has represented corporations in the largest cases resolved under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
As General Executive Board Attorney at the Laborer’s International Union of North America, Mr. Luskin developed, implemented, and administered an internal anticorruption program as part of negotiations with the Department of Justice to avoid formal government supervision. The DOJ has characterized the program as its model for successful union anti-corruption efforts.
Mr. Luskin is a past Chairman of the Committee on RICO, Forfeitures and Alternative Remedies of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and a former President of the Harvard Law School Association of the District of Columbia. He has previously been a Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught courses in Advanced Criminal Law and Labor Racketeering, and is currently a member of the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course in Global Anti-Corruption.