Obama nominated Laurie O. Robinson for Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs

I missed this story.

This statement was released by the White House on May 6, 2009:

Laurie O. Robinson, Nominee for Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice

Laurie O. Robinson was named Acting Assistant Attorney General/Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General on January 28, 2009. Robinson previously served as Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs from 1993 to 2000. During her tenure in the Clinton Administration, Robinson oversaw the largest increase in federal spending on criminal justice research in the nation's history. Between 2001 and January of this year, she served as a Distinguished Senior Scholar in the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, and as Executive Director of its Forum on Crime & Justice. In 2004 Robinson launched a Criminology Master of Science Program at Penn, which she continued to direct until leaving to join the Department of Justice in January. Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 1993, Robinson was the director of the American Bar Association's Section of Criminal Justice for 14 years, where she founded the ABA's Juvenile Justice Center and had responsibility for policy development, work with Congress, and development of special projects in such areas as crime victims, prisons, and police procedures.

Remember Regina B. Schofield? She was the former AAG for OJP before she quit in 2007. Also, she was then OJJDP Administrator J. Robert Flores' boss and was connected to the Inspector General's investigation into Flores' grant-making process. Also this:

Wikipedia:

An internal Justice Department audit, released September 14, 2007, revealed that [Schofield's] department had sent employees to 10 conferences over the last two years, with unusually high expenses.

The [Schofield's] department spent more than $13,000 on cookies and brownies for 1,542 attendees of a four-day conference in 2005. A networking session that offered butterfly shrimp, coconut lobster skewers and Swedish meatballs for a Community Oriented Policing Services conference in July 2006 cost more than $60,000.

Schofield bailed from her job before any investigation into her practices.