Billionaire influencer George Soros long has funded the political campaigns of leftist prosecutors, and in turn they’ve used their offices to pursue an agenda of leniency for criminals.
Now one is facing trouble for doing just that.
A report at the Federalist explains that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and a top deputy, Matthew Stielger, have been referred for criminal investigation by a federal judge.
He’s suspected of “false statements, false declarations made under oath, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy.”
Explained the report, “It’s familiar stuff. Krasner, a spectacularly woke prosecutor who won the office with lavish backing from George Soros, has a long history of scandal and crisis, and has been accused of misleading courts in several high-profile cases.”
The report said the present problem “involves an effort by a convicted murderer, Dennis Johnson, to be freed from prison, turning to the federal courts with a repeated request for a writ of habeas corpus after state courts denied his several petitions for release.”
When the court asked Krasner’s office to respond to Johnson’s petitions, “Without investigation, Krasner’s office conceded Johnson’s questionable claims about the supposedly flawed murder conviction, telling the court that prosecutors ‘did not oppose the granting of relief,’ according to the memorandum.”
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