[Source.](https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/25/dojs-kristen-clarke-hit-with-criminal-referral-and-ethics-complaints-for-lying-to-senate-about-domestic-violence-arrest/) > Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, was hit Monday with three ethics complaints and a criminal referral for “knowingly and willfully” committing “perjury” during her Senate confirmation, the Daily Signal reported. > Clarke allegedly hid her domestic violence arrest from Senate investigators ahead of her highly contentious confirmation hearing in May of 2021. > Clarke’s ex-husband, Reginald Avery, told the Signal last April that she “attacked him with a knife, slicing his finger to the bone” in 2006. That domestic violence arrest was later expunged, the Signal reported.