According to a new report, George Soros has spent $40 million over the past decade to elect 75 woke prosecutors — who are now being blamed for rising crime in some of America's biggest cities.

The 91-year-old billionaire philanthropist supported candidates through the Open Society Foundations, a network of non-governmental organizations and think tanks that support left-wing politics.

They include George Gascon, the controversial Los Angeles district attorney who received $4.7 million for his 2020 campaign through the Soros-funded California Justice and Safety PAC and is now on trial for a series of lenient prosecutorial decisions call back.

Among them is Philadelphia State Attorney Larry Krasner, whose campaign received $1.3 million through the Soros-backed Color of Change and Pennsylvania Justice and Public Safety PACs.

Funding from Soros accounted for more than 90 percent of his 2017 fundraising.

Since 2018, Krasner has presided over a city that had more shootings in 2021 than any year in the city's history, and is on track to hit that number in 2022.

Critics accuse him of not prosecuting various types of crimes.

"Soros uses this campaign money and hundreds of millions more to support organizations behind the scenes to reshape the criminal justice system for the worse, promoting dangerous policies and anti-police narratives to advance his radical agenda."

said Jason Johnson, a former deputy chief of the Baltimore police and president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), a group that supports the police.

released 17-page report

"Justice for sale: How György Soros brought radical prosecutors to power"

with title.

The report states that

prosecutors responsible for the legal security of 72 million people, i.e. one in five Americans, came to power through the financing of Soros-backed groups.

That includes about half of America's 50 most populous cities and counties, where 40 percent of all homicides occur.

The report's authors find that the Soros-backed cash injection has tipped the balance sheet, and to an abnormal degree.

District prosecutor elections have traditionally been quiet campaigns, the authors write.

Source: Daily Mail

“Candidates used to spend very little on their campaigns, instead vying for local supporters and flashing their legal qualifications for leadership.

“That has changed recently as millions of dollars of campaign money have flowed into these grassroots races.

“Most of the wasteful spending on advertising and consultants was spent by (or on behalf of) 'social justice' candidates.

The report highlights Gascon and Krasner — two of the country's most prominent woke district attorneys — and newly elected Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Bragg, who replaced Cyrus Vance on Jan. 1, is the first African-American to become Manhattan's district attorney and has been criticized for lax enforcement. When he took office, he directed deputy district attorneys not to prosecute many low-level crimes and not to seek prison terms in certain robbery, assault and gun possession cases where no other crime was committed.

He said that

prison sentences should be reserved for the most serious crimes, such as murder and sexual assault.

Bragg's campaign received $1.1 million from the New York Justice and Public Safety PAC and Color of Change.

The report also notes that Kim Foxx, the Cook County, Illinois, district attorney who represents Chicago, received $2 million for her campaign through the Illinois Justice and Public Safety PAC.

Foxx has come under heavy criticism for releasing people accused of violent crimes under electronic monitoring, a policy that Mayor Lori Lightfoot tried unsuccessfully to overturn.

In Loudoun County, Virginia, Soros supported Buta Biberaj with $922,000 through New Virginia Majority and the Virginia Justice and Public Safety PAC.

Biberaj is up for recall this summer, with his opponents accusing him of "letting criminals run amok in the streets" — especially "wife beaters and child abusers."

"When most of these prosecutors take office, they pursue radical justice policies, including eliminating cash bail, ignoring crimes, and seeking lighter sentences while developing an unfriendly relationship with their public safety partners, especially the police."

- claim the authors.

"Crime and violence have been on the rise since many of these reform prosecutors were elected."

Daily Mail via Neokohn

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