Soros DAs

Extracted Attributes

• Criticism

  Policies linked by critics to increases in crime rates, such as a 30% increase in homicides in 2020.

• Definition

  District Attorneys who have received funding from George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF).

• Primary Funder

  George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF)

• OSF Stated Goals

  Advancing justice, democracy, education, public health, and independent media.

• Associated Policies

  Progressive criminal justice policies, including advocating for bail reform, diverting low-level non-violent cases, offering lenient plea deals, and sometimes refusing to prosecute certain categories of crimes.

• Identification Criteria

  Receiving campaign support from Soros-funded groups, participating in Soros-sponsored programming, or signing public statements coordinated by Soros-funded criminal justice groups.

• OSF Total Expenditures (as of 2025)

  Exceeded $23 billion

Timeline

• Open Society Foundations (OSF) established by business magnate George Soros. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1993

• George Soros and affiliated political action committees spent over $17 million on local District Attorney races. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2015-2019

• Larry Krasner, a Soros-funded candidate, was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2017

• Over two dozen Soros-linked DAs traveled on FJP junkets to Scotland, Germany, Portugal, and Kenya. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2019

• The US experienced a 30% increase in homicides, which critics linked to the policies of Soros-funded DAs. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2020

• 75 local elected prosecutors were identified as 'Soros DAs' based on specific criteria. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2022-01

• Marilyn Mosby, a Soros-linked State's Attorney for Baltimore City, lost her Democratic primary election. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2022

• Since this year, 21 Soros-linked District Attorneys have been replaced by 'tough-on-crime' prosecutors. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2022

• The All-In Podcast hosts discussed a backlash against 'Soros DAs' and progressive policies in California, citing the passage of Prop 36 and the election of Daniel Lurie as Mayor of San Francisco. (Source: Related Documents)

  2024

• Open Society Foundations reported total expenditures exceeding $23 billion since its establishment. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025

Open Society Foundations

Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an American grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros. Open Society Foundations financially supports civil society groups around the world, with the stated aim of advancing justice, democracy, education, public health and independent media. The group's name was inspired by Karl Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies. As of 2015, the OSF had branches in 37 countries, encompassing a group of country and regional foundations, such as the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. The organization's headquarters is located at 224 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. In 2018, OSF announced it was closing its European office in Budapest and moving to Berlin, in response to legislation passed by the Hungarian government targeting the foundation's activities. As of 2025, OSF has reported expenditures in excess of US$23 billion since its establishment in 1993.

Web Search Results

• [PDF] JUSTICE FOR SALE - Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund

  Soros, the details could not be confirmed with certainty. But their identification as a “Soros DA” is based on receiving assistance from the Soros constellation while in office and their public endorsements of statements issued by Soros affiliates. The breadth and depth of this constellation of groups is difficult to see at first glance because the financial and advocacy relationships between the organizations, donors, and their personnel are often knotted and opaque. [...] consequences. LELDF JUSTICE FOR SALE 4 The 75 Soros DAs were identified as local elected prosecutors currently holding office as of January 2022 and meeting two of the following three criteria: METHODOLOGY 1. Receiving campaign support from Soros-funded or affiliated groups; 2. Participating in Soros groups’ sponsored programming including conferences, trips, and forums; 3. Signing 3 or more public statements or amicus briefs coordinated by Soros-funded criminal justice groups (i.e. Fair and [...] on domestic and international junkets. In 2019, over two dozen Soros-linked DAs traveled (all expenses paid) on FJP junkets to Scotland, Germany, Portugal, and Kenya. [Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby and St. Louis’ Kim Gardner later came under scrutiny for failing to publicly disclose the paid travel as in-kind gifts].14 Safety and Justice is the umbrella name for a series Soros-funded organizations at the national, state, and local level pushing for progressive criminal justice policies. Their

• 21 Soros-linked DAs replaced by 'tough-on-crime' prosecutors since ...

  TOPICS: WASHINGTON (TNND) — Nearly two dozen district attorneys associated with billionaire philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros have been replaced by "tough-on-crime" prosecutors since 2022, a report found Monday. Since 2022, 21 prosecutors labeled as “tough” have succeeded ones linked to Soros nationwide, according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF). The group's findings include election results from last month. [...] The report also points to the replacements of former Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón and former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Gascón's term ends Tuesday when Nathan Hochman, his opponent in last month's race, takes office, while Mosby lost the 2022 Democratic primary election to Ivan Bates, who has since held the role. [...] Replaced officials include former Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx, whose jurisdiction extended to Chicago. Her term ended Monday when Eileen O'Neill Burke was sworn in. Outgoing Alameda County, Calif. District Attorney Pamela Price, who was recalled last month after just 18 months in office, is also featured in LELDF's findings.

• How George Soros funded progressive DAs behind US crime surge

  Her efforts coupled with Soros’ largesse have played an outsize role in some of the most controversial district attorney campaigns in the US, including George Gascon in Los Angeles as well as Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and Kim Foxx in Chicago, among others. Soros also donated $1 million to Alvin Bragg’s successful DA campaign in Manhattan, funneling the cash through the Color of Change political action committee, according to public filings. [...] Between 2015 and 2019, Soros and his affiliated political action committees spent more than $17 million on local DA races in support of left-wing candidates, according to the Capital Research Center, a non-profit that tracks lobbying and charitable giving. That number is expected to top $20 million in the last two years, according to estimates from the NLPC. [...] Critics say the policies of Soros-funded DAs, which have included abolishing bail and, in the case of Chicago, placing hundreds of violent criminals on electronic tracking systems, have led to a spike in crime throughout the country. According to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Reportreleased in September, the country saw a 30 percent increase in homicides in 2020 — the largest single-year spike since they began recording crime statistics 60 years ago. The report also saw a 24 percent decrease

• George Soros's Prosecutors Wage War on Law and Order

  With the exception of Gascon (who couldn’t because of civil service protections for his deputies), all of these DAs either fired career prosecutors once they assumed office or created such a toxic, anti-prosecutorial atmosphere in the office that law-and-order prosecutors left in droves. Worse yet, there are eerie parallels between Dugan in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia’s Soros-funded district attorney Larry Krasner. [...] George Gascon of Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin of San Francisco, Kim Foxx of Chicago, Kim Gardner of St. Louis, Rachael Rollins of Boston, and Marilyn Mosby of Baltimore all made the same or similar campaign promises, and each turned out to be a disaster once they were elected district attorney. [...] Dugan promises to use his discretion on choosing which charges to file, divert "low-level, nonviolent cases out of the criminal justice system" rarely ask for bail, give lenient plea offers, and concentrate on violent crimes. If these campaign promises sound familiar, that’s because it’s the standard boilerplate recited by Soros-financed candidates for district attorney.

• [PDF] George Soros's Prosecutors Wage War on Law and Order

  Gascon (who couldn’t because of civil service protections for his deputies), all of these DAs either fired career prosecutors once they assumed office or created such a toxic, anti-prosecutorial atmosphere in the office that law-and-order prosecutors left in droves. Worse yet, there are eerie parallels between Dugan in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia’s Soros-funded district attorney Larry Krasner. Before he was elected in 2017, Krasner was a career criminal defense attorney who sued the [...] If these campaign promises sound familiar, that’s because it’s the standard boilerplate recited by Soros-financed candidates for district attorney. But once these candidates get elected, they quickly turn their anodyne statements into something different and engage in prosecutorial nullification by refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes, watering down felonies, refusing to ask for bail, and refusing to prosecute violent juveniles as adults. Of course, violent crime rates often