EXCLUSIVE — A government watchdog group has filed a bar complaint against U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, accusing the Biden appointee of engaging in dishonesty, deceit, and conduct that interfered with the administration of justice during her tenure as a senior Justice Department official before joining the federal bench.

The complaint, obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner, was filed Tuesday with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals’ Office of Disciplinary Counsel by Democracy Restored, a self-described nonpartisan government watchdog organization. It asks disciplinary authorities to investigate whether Sooknanan violated D.C. Bar’s Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting attorneys from engaging in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” and conduct that “seriously interferes with the administration of justice.”