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Democratic megadonor funneled more than $40 million to elect 75
prosecutors in the last decade

George Soros spent more than $40 million in the past decade to
elect scores of liberal prosecutors in half of America's largest
jurisdictions, many of which are now roiled by crime.

The Democratic megadonor has backed 75 so-called justice reform
prosecutors through direct contributions, PACs, and other third-
party entities, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund revealed
in a June report. Though many had little prosecutorial
experience when elected, they represent 72 million Americans in
some of the nation's most populous municipalities. Ten Soros
prosecutors, including Philadelphia district attorney Larry
Krasner (D.) and Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon
(D.), received $13 million in just the last four years, going on
to win races where they had vastly outraised their
competition—sometimes by as much as 90 percent. In each race,
Soros was the single greatest donor to the campaign.

"Our study shows for the first time, Soros's funding and
installation of these district attorneys is fundamentally
dismantling the criminal justice system as we know it," Law
Enforcement Legal Defense Fund president Jason Johnson told the
Washington Free Beacon.

The report discloses the power progressive criminal prosecutors
wield in the American justice system—and the potential effects
of that influence on crime. The FBI in 2020 reported its highest
single-year increase in homicides—a 30 percent jump from the
previous year. A year later, 12 cities, including Krasner's
Philadelphia and Soros-backed district attorney José Garza's
Austin, Texas, broke their all-time homicide records. According
to the report, more than 40 percent of homicides and a third of
all violent and property crimes in 2021 occurred in
jurisdictions run by Soros prosecutors.

From cities like Seattle and Los Angeles, to wealthy suburbs
near Washington, D.C., to provincial counties in Mississippi and
Wisconsin, the prosecutors have radically overhauled bail laws
and pursued lightened sentencing in an effort to reduce
incarceration. Soros began his quiet effort to remake America's
criminal justice system in 2014, donating $50 million to the
ACLU for justice reform activism. He followed up in 2016 by
funneling more than $3 million into seven local campaigns,
including to Cook County district attorney Kim Foxx (D.), the
controversial Chicago prosecutor known for dropping charges
against Jussie Smollett, who committed a hate crime hoax.

Johnson told the Free Beacon career prosecutors are becoming a
thing of the past as former tax attorneys and ACLU lawyers have
ascended to top prosecutorial positions on Soros's dime.

Soros's network of justice reform groups includes more than 500
PACs, dark money groups, and nonprofits, the Law Enforcement
Legal Defense Fund report notes. Some, such as the Drug Policy
Alliance, where Soros serves as chairman, are open about their
affiliation. Others, like the Tides Center, are "donor pass-
through organization[s]," which launder donations from Soros's
philanthropic juggernauts, including the Open Society
Foundations, to subentities and political PACs.

Through a cluster of statewide public safety PACs, Soros donated
more than a million dollars each to Krasner, Gascon, Foxx, and
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.). He also donated
hundreds of thousands of dollars to Virginia prosecutors Buta
Biberaj (D.) and Steve Descano (D.), both of whom have received
scrutiny in office for failing to prosecute violent criminals
and allowing repeat offenders to victimize others. In a New York
Times op-ed last week, Descano also pledged not to prosecute
illegal abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
this month.

Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) told the Free
Beacon the ascent of Soros prosecutors has changed criminal law
in many jurisdictions overnight and made communities less safe.

"Instead of trying to change the law through elected officials,
these groups are electing prosecutors who simply ignore it,"
Miyares said. "They've replaced DAs that follow the law with
radical extremists with an agenda that makes our communities
less safe and emboldens criminals."

The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund cited a Free Beacon
report in March that revealed Descano's office had dropped
felony charges against a man who attempted to abduct and rape a
hotel maid in 2020. One year later, the same man was charged for
killing two homeless men and wounding three others during a nine-
day shooting spree in New York City and Washington, D.C.

The looming threat to public safety has inspired recall efforts
against Descano, Biberaj, and Soros-funded Arlington County
commonwealth's attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.) in Virginia.

"Soros prosecutors now preside over 20 percent of Americans with
the same disastrous results we have seen in Virginia—violent
criminals and sexual predators roam the streets victimizing
innocents," Sean Kennedy, the president of Virginians for Safe
Communities, which fielded a recall effort against the
prosecutors, told the Free Beacon. "As San Francisco’s Chesa
Boudin faces his fate in a recall today, VSC knows that Northern
Virginia’s Soros prosecutors will face the same public reckoning
soon as the American people want safety first."

Other prosecutors have participated in junkets, symposiums, and
even lavish retreats put on by Soros-funded entities. More than
20 Soros prosecutors, including Gascon, Baltimore state's
attorney Marilyn Mosby (D.), and St. Louis circuit attorney Kim
Gardner (D.), traveled with Fair and Just Prosecution, a Tides
Center subentity, in 2019 to Germany and Portugal, where they
learned about "drug decriminalization and harm reduction
approaches." The Vera Institute of Justice, a think tank funded
by millions from Soros's Open Society Foundation, treated Mosby
and Foxx the same year to an all-expenses-paid spa retreat
during work days.

The Vera Institute and other think tanks funded by Soros also
promote these progressive prosecutors' tactics while shielding
them from bad press. New York University's Brennan Center for
Justice has the public relations firm BerlinRosen on retainer
for district attorneys it works with, according to the report.

The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund anticipates Soros will
spend millions more to reelect Gascon and to install other
candidates in Raleigh, N.C., and Alameda County and Orange
County, Calif., this year.

Voters in San Francisco issued the first check against Soros
prosecutors during a recall election Tuesday, with 60 percent
ousting San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin (D.) after
a little more than two years in office.

Update 7:09 a.m.: This piece has been updated with the result of
the San Francisco recall election.

Published under: Crime, George Soros, Larry Krasner

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/report-soros-prosecutors-run- half-of-americas-largest-jurisdictions/

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