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Virginia Dem defends Soros-backed prosecutor from DOJ probe after illegal immigrant charging allegations

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A local Virginia Democrat blasted the Department of Justice’s civil rights probe into Soros-backed Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano as a “hit job” last week. The department recently launched an investigation into allegations Descano’s office gave preferential treatment to criminal illegal immigrants. “Given how the Trump administration … Read more

Soros-backed prosecutor hit with rebuke after dismissing probe as Trump ‘partisan attacks’: ‘Hey scumbag’

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Mother of murder victim Stephanie Minter calls out lenient policies amid DOJ investigation Cheryl Minter, mother of murdered Stephanie Minter, expresses outrage over her daughter’s killing by an illegal immigrant with a violent criminal history. Minter reveals that Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano repeatedly showed leniency to the suspect. She reacts to news that … Read more

Agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents’ dinner attack, prosecutor says

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WASHINGTON — Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, … Read more

DOJ orders U.S. attorney’s offices to assign 1 prosecutor in each district to staff new fraud division, memo says

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The head of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division on Wednesday directed all U.S. attorneys’ offices to assign a local prosecutor to serve “in place” in support of a Washington-based office created earlier this year, according to a memo obtained by CBS News. In the memo, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said detailing a … Read more

Lead prosecutor on probe into ex-CIA Director John Brennan is removed from case, sources say

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The lead career federal prosecutor in Miami who was overseeing a criminal investigation into whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress is no longer assigned to the case, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News on Friday. Maria Medetis Long, who is the head of the national security section for the U.S. attorney’s office … Read more

Soros-backed prosecutor set for Capitol Hill grilling as sanctuary policies face reckoning

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Steve Descano, the George Soros-backed prosecutor in Fairfax County, Virginia, will make his first Capitol Hill appearance next month as House Republicans press him on the county’s immigration policies following a murder tied to a repeat illegal immigrant offender. ​​Descano and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid are … Read more

Biden-era illegal immigrant convicted of groping teen girls as critics blast Soros-backed prosecutor

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant accused of groping more than a dozen high-school girls in Fairfax County, Virginia, was found guilty on nine counts Thursday. The guilty verdict came after critics of Soros-funded Democratic Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano accused him of flubbing the case by … Read more