Dr. Molly Claflin

Biography

Molly Claflin is a Washington D.C.-based attorney specializing in high-profile government investigations and crisis management. She has extensive experience managing investigations for the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as for a major international law firm. Claflin has provided legal and policy analysis for major media outlets including NPR, the Washington Post, Slate, Bloomberg, and Time Magazine. After graduating from Stanford Law School, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, to focus on crisis management during the 2008 Obama campaign. Claflin spent over five years at Gibson Dunn, where she concentrated on congressional investigations, securities litigation, and internal investigations. She has worked with the Senate Judiciary Committee as a full-time investigative counsel, overseeing investigations into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails and connections of candidate Donald Trump's campaign to Russia. Additionally, she served as Deputy Staff Director for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, managing investigations into financial fraud related to coronavirus relief programs. Her work led to multiple prosecutions and enforcement actions, returning hundreds of millions of dollars to U.S. taxpayers. Currently, Claflin is recognized for her investigations work, receiving the Stevens Award from the Harry S. Truman Foundation for outstanding public service in the legal profession. She was also named a Young Leader by the French-American Foundation and a Truman Scholar in 2003.

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