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   governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   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,"   
      
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