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Soros-Backed Philly DA Referred to DOJ for Criminal Investigation — By a Federal Judge

Four prosecutors in the Philadelphia District Attorney's office told a federal judge that their boss ordered them to "protect the office" — after the court started asking questions about how they handled a murder case. The boss in question is Larry Krasner, the George Soros-backed DA who's spent years letting criminals walk. Now a federal judge thinks Krasner himself might be one.

U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond, a George W. Bush appointee, has formally referred Krasner and his top deputy Matthew Stiegler to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for investigation and "other appropriate action."

The referral stems from a post-conviction case involving Dennis Johnson, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 for the convenience store slaying of Kenyatta Smith in Philadelphia. Johnson received a life sentence without parole and has spent more than ten years fighting to overturn the conviction. Krasner's Conviction Integrity Unit — one of the crown jewels of progressive prosecution — took up the case. That's where things went sideways.

Judge Diamond's memorandum, issued Tuesday, laid out what he found. Prosecutors in Krasner's own office alleged that Krasner and Stiegler pressured staffers to provide false information to the court, urged subordinates to lie, shielded a supervisor from blame, and threatened "consequences" for anyone who didn't comply. Diamond called the conduct "troubling," "disturbing" — and potentially illegal.

"I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia's highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law," Diamond wrote. He specified the potential crimes: false statements, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy. Not one. All four.

Diamond didn't stop at the referral. He barred both Krasner and Stiegler from any further participation in Johnson's case — disqualifying the DA and his deputy from a proceeding in their own jurisdiction.

Krasner's response was vintage Krasner. "I respectfully and vigorously disagree with the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law," he said. "I look forward to appealing to the higher court as soon as the law allows." The man whose entire career is built on second-guessing the justice system now wants that same system to give him a do-over.

The obstruction allegations are coming from inside the house. These aren't Republican operatives or Fox News contributors making accusations. These are Krasner's own prosecutors — four of them — telling a federal judge that their DA told them to lie to a court. When your own team is the one blowing the whistle, the "political persecution" defense doesn't hold up.

Krasner is one of several district attorneys across the country elected with significant financial backing from George Soros-funded organizations. The progressive prosecutor model was supposed to prove that you could reform the justice system from the inside. What it actually proved, at least in Philadelphia, is that the person running the system might need the same oversight he was elected to provide.

"In these circumstances, with the issuance of this Memorandum, I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and Stiegler to this District's United States Attorney's Office for investigation and other appropriate action," Diamond wrote. That referral is now in the hands of federal prosecutors.

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