Edited sentence: In fact, she had proceeded with the property purchase only after first receiving a legal opinion from DOJ ethics officials stating she could participate in the joint purchase, she did not participate in any negotiations of the particular consent decrees, never discussed the consent decrees with any subordinates in her office, and signed the decrees based solely on recommendations by the EPA and every career subordinate official handling the cases that the consent decrees were appropriate and favorable to the government and the environment.Wooldridge has been unequivocally exonerated from any supposed wrongdoing during her service in the government