The Trump administration has annihilated funding for a Soros-funded group dedicated to undermining the criminal justice system, following a Media Research Center exposé.
The Vera Institute of Justice, a soft-on-crime group that received at least $11 million from leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF), acknowledged on April 9 that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had stripped them of approximately $5 million in grants. Vera Institute of Justice Vice President for Advocacy and Partnerships Insha Rahman told leftist outlet Mother Jones that her organization believes “that the only reason our funding was cut is that we have been singularly vocal in our opposition to this administration’s actions.” Rahman made this point in response to a DoJ letter that purportedly argued that the work of the Vera Institute “no longer effectuate[s] the program goals or agency priorities.”
Five months before President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Media Research Center published a report exposing the Vera Institute as one of 20 Soros-funded criminal justice organizations working to install, direct and control 126 leftist soft-on-crime prosecutors, such as then-San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
Boudin, the soft-on-crime son of Weather Underground terrorists and convicted murderers David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, embraced radical policies on illegal drugs, supporting “safe consumption sites.” He also indicted a former San Francisco police officer for murder, even though Boudin’s predecessor did not charge him. A California judge dismissed Boudin’s vendetta, noting that a jury would probably decide the police officer’s choices were “necessary” for “self-defense.”
Boudin also announced his support for the forced vaccination of police and opposed holding parole violators accountable.
In a 2021 post, Boudin mentioned his collaboration with the leftist University of California Berkeley Law School, in language more befitting of apartheid South Africa: “As prosecutors, we have a responsibility to heal wounds caused by police violence. Our ‘Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission’ works to build trust w/ those harmed by a lack of accountability.” Additionally, MRC researchers found that Boudin frequently colluded with Soros groups, including the Vera Institute.
The Vera Institute and other Soros-funded organizations such as Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), the Prosecutors Alliance of California, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), held private meetings with groups of these radical prosecutors. FJP and the Vera Institute worked together on the Prosecution Leaders of Now initiative, which offered to credential “managers and line prosecutors” in District Attorney offices. The initiative was open to “emerging leaders in prosecution” who have “committed to transforming the practice of prosecution and redressing inequities in the criminal justice system.” FJP recruited for the initiative from the offices of many Soros prosecutors, including Boudin.
FJP also pushed Soros prosecutors to sign up for the Vera Institute’s “Motion for Justice Campaign,” a radical effort pushing “racial equity” and requiring prosecutors to promise they would reduce “racial disparities in case outcomes by at least 20% through implementing the Motion for Justice framework.”
In some cases, these Soros-funded groups even made their prosecutor meetings “mandatory,” revealing that they treated elected public officials as though they reported to Soros and his groups rather than to their oaths to uphold the law.
These prosecutors were elected with support from Soros-funded groups and allowed Soros groups to make staff choices for their offices. The Vera Institute and FJP even went as far as pushing one of their prosecutors, Boudin, to lobby then-Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to ease up on fentanyl dealers.
During the Aug. 12 edition of The Vince Coglianese Show, MRC Free Speech Vice President Dan Schneider pointed out how these connections, coordination and demands had apparently left the prosecutors confused about who they work for. Furthermore, he warned that the Soros prosecutors may have broken by colluding with groups like FJP.
“What is unlawful is when you get these prosecutors to collude to break the law,” Schneider said. He referenced the pledges Soros prosecutors signed promising not to enforce laws on abortion or to protect children from genital mutilation or chemical castration. Schneider added that a refusal to enforce a law at all: “[A]mounts to a prosecutorial veto. Prosecutorial vetoes are unlawful. This is not mere discretion of a prosecutor. This is unlawful behavior of these prosecutors. And if they're conspiring to do this, that sounds like a RICO violation to me.
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