Liberal billionaire George Soros is flooding Virginia with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a last-minute effort to support Democratic prosecutors on the ballot on Nov. 5.
Soros's targeted candidates have expressed opposition to the death penalty and prosecuting marijuana possession and seek to reduce incarceration rates by bringing lower-level charges.
The billionaire's contributions to the candidates in all but one case are by far the largest they have received for their races.
Among the candidates Soros is lavishing with cash is Buta Biberaj, the Democrat running for commonwealth's attorney in Loudoun County, Va., who received a $260,000 contribution and $3,773 in digital ad productions on Oct. 29 from the Justice and Public Safety PAC, a federal political action committee financed by Soros.
Soros has for years quietly funded prosecutor races as part of an effort to overhaul the criminal justice system.
One candidate backed by Soros in recent years was progressive Larry Krasner, a defense attorney who joked during his campaign in Philadelphia that he had built a career that made him completely unelectable, which included representing Occupy Philadelphia and suing a police department more than 75 times.
Despite the hiccups in California, Soros in recent years has had success getting his preferred candidates elected.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/soros-sends-last-minute-cash-in-bid-to-reshape-virginias-criminal-justice-system/
Soros's targeted candidates have expressed opposition to the death penalty and prosecuting marijuana possession and seek to reduce incarceration rates by bringing lower-level charges.
The billionaire's contributions to the candidates in all but one case are by far the largest they have received for their races.
Among the candidates Soros is lavishing with cash is Buta Biberaj, the Democrat running for commonwealth's attorney in Loudoun County, Va., who received a $260,000 contribution and $3,773 in digital ad productions on Oct. 29 from the Justice and Public Safety PAC, a federal political action committee financed by Soros.
Soros has for years quietly funded prosecutor races as part of an effort to overhaul the criminal justice system.
One candidate backed by Soros in recent years was progressive Larry Krasner, a defense attorney who joked during his campaign in Philadelphia that he had built a career that made him completely unelectable, which included representing Occupy Philadelphia and suing a police department more than 75 times.
Despite the hiccups in California, Soros in recent years has had success getting his preferred candidates elected.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/soros-sends-last-minute-cash-in-bid-to-reshape-virginias-criminal-justice-system/
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