GOP AG Reveals DOJ Funding for Soros-Supported Group Training Left-Leaning Prosecutors


(USNewsMag.com) – Andrew Bailey, the attorney general for Missouri, has written Congress to express his concern over a “radically progressive” and lenient approach to prosecuting crimes that is being propagated by a group linked to controversial Democratic donor George Soros.

Bailey has identified the group as the Vera Institute, an organization based in Brooklyn, New York. The organization’s stated goal is to “transform the criminal and legal justice systems.” The group has also received a grant from the Justice Department for an issue that Bailey believes warrants investigation.

According to the Missouri AG, the group “encourages” and trains prosecutors to adapt a much softer approach towards prosecuting suspects—an approach, he says, that is “counter-productive to public safety.” Bailey cites a recent example of how employing that kind of mindset resulted in tragedy: Kim Gardner, a circuit attorney for St. Louis, let out a repeat offender on bail, only to have the same man drive his speeding car into a young girl, causing her to lose both legs.