Ep13 Tim’s Travails: This month, we interview attorney Ronald Sharpe, former United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands
May 2026 — This month on IP attorney and author Timothy Trainer’s podcast/video show we meet attorney Ronald Sharpe
Our Topic: A powerful conversation with a former U.S. Attorney
About our guest: Ronald is an experienced trial attorney with proven leadership who managed complex litigation matters and planned and implemented effective investigative and trial strategies. He is a former Jones Day law firm partner who practiced in the firm’s Investigations and White Collar Defense Group. During his tenure at Jones Day, Ronald worked out of the Washington office, focusing on white-collar defense, internal investigations and the representation of corporations and individuals in connection with government enforcement actions.
From September 2009 to March 2017, Ronald served as the presidentially appointed United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. He led numerous high-profile, criminal and civil investigations, including public corruption cases implicating elected members of the Virgin Islands Senate, federal employees and police officers as well as significant financial fraud cases and international organized crime investigations. While U.S. Attorney, Ronald served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.
Prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the District of Columbia, where he was a Senior Assistant in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section. While an AUSA, he tried dozens of jury trials and led hundreds of investigations involving a wide range of matters, including bank and wire fraud, homicide, money laundering and narcotics trafficking.
Don’t miss this interview!
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About Tim’s Travails: In this podcast/video sereis, IP attorney and author Tim Trainer introduce us to experts around the country who have insight into the law, international trade, and more, to help us better understand our world in 2025 and beyond.
Tim, himself, fits the bill for he worked for three decades for the US government and private law firms focusing on international trade, and has developed a deep understanding of global economics and politics.
Writing books is his passion. The author of seven books as of 2025, he has penned several non-fiction tomes, including his first book, Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights; the 15th edition was published in 2020. Thomson Reuters’ Aspatore Books published Tim’s next title in 2015, Potato Chips to Computer Chips: The War on Fake Stuff. Fiction was a genre he always wanted to try. In 2017, Pendulum Over the Pacific was released by Joshua Tree Publishing. “This political intrigue story is set in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., and centers on trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan in the late 1980s,” Tim explains. In 2023, his first series hit bookstores: The China Connection. In December 2024, he followed it with The China Factor.
Stay tuned for more episodes on InkandescentRadio.com and Inkandescent.tv, and of course, log in regularly for new blog entries and other information on Tim’s website, www.TimothyTrainer.com.
