EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Chuck Grassley exposes millions of dollars the Biden DOJ sent to Soros' soft-on-crime groups

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) doled out millions of dollars of grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that advocated soft-on-crime policies

Several of these groups pushed for defunding the police, and anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) organizations are tied directly to George Soros’s sprawling network of progressive prosecutors, according to a bombshell report obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused the Biden-era DOJ of “plac[ing] crime victims last” by sending money to organizations like the Vera Institute of Justice and Impact Justice. The Trump administration’s DOJ slashed these grants, which Grassley said is much-needed.

Several of the grants were earmarked by the Biden DOJ to run through the second Trump term, before they were canceled.

In his report, Grassley noted that his findings “detail Vera’s connections to George Soros and the support Vera gave to Soros-backed district attorneys as they redesigned their offices around lenient progressive prosecution policies.”

“Similarly, training materials produced by Impact Justice advocated for far-leaning progressive reforms peppered throughout what should have been routine safety training courses,” the report reads.

District attorneys across America told the Reporter that Vera’s activism harms voters even in areas that don’t have Soros prosecutors, because criminals can easily cross jurisdictions.

“Vera has been active next door to our law-abiding citizens in my district,” Mark Davidson, the District Attorney in Tennessee’s 25th Judicial District, told the Reporter.

Steve Mulroy, a Democrat who represents Memphis as its DA, has been backed by Soros’s network for years. Vera partnered with Mulroy’s office, which slashed prosecutions for traffic stops by 65 percent.

“We approve of traffic stops that lead to public safety efforts to combat the flow of deadly narcotics into our communities and uncover the guns and illicit proceeds that are killing Americans,” Davidson told the Reporter. “Vera says don’t enforce our laws. Turn a blind eye to the small things. Those small things lead to big things.”

Grassley’s work immediately received praise from Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), who has been spotlighting the dangers of Soros-funded prosecutors for years.

“Every single Soros prosecutor needs to be recalled, removed, and replaced,” Cotton told the Reporter. “I’m glad that Chairman Grassley has helped shine a light on the scourge of these pro-criminal radicals.”

One of the groups leading the charge against Soros-funded progressive prosecutors across America told the Reporter that these cuts are welcome news.

“It’s one thing for George and Alex Soros to spend millions of their own money to influence prosecutors across the country, but it’s another thing for Democrats to do so with taxpayer dollars,” Ada Furciniti, the executive director of Protecting Americans Action Fund (PAAF), said. “The Department of Justice’s partnership with Vera Institute under the Biden administration amplified the criminal first, victim last mentality that has been tearing through communities across the county.”

Grassley’s report on the Trump DOJ cuts could hardly come at a better time for the administration. Vera, for example, “sought out district attorney offices to influence,” he noted.

Vera, for its part, describes its own mission as “end[ing] the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people…[as well as] disrupting the criminalization and deportation of immigrants and their families.”

Vera received millions of dollars from the Biden administration, as well as at least $10 million from the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations.

Vera’s Soros connections run deep. Grassley noted an extensive staffing pipeline from Soros entities to Vera, one where “once Soros-backed prosecutors won their elections, many entered into agreements with Soros-backed Vera to restructure the District Attorney’s office.”

In one instance, a progressive DA handed over “unrestricted access to the Milwaukee County Attorney’s office data to assess whether individual charging decisions were, in aggregate, proportional and fair. Grassley described how Milwaukee DA John Chisholm handed the proverbial keys of his office to a former prosecutor sent by Vera to observe his work.

Chisholm himself stated that people will die because of his policies.

“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet,” he said in 2007. “Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen.”

Chisholm was tragically correct. Darrell Brooks, Jr., the criminal who drove an SUV through a Christmas Parade in Milwaukee, killing six people and injuring 62 others, had been released on a $1,000 bond by Chisholm’s office just days prior.

Vera’s involvement with liberal prosecutors also includes partnerships with Rachael Rollins, who infamously published a 66-page memo shortly after taking office with a list of crimes she would not prosecute; Kim Gardner, who prosecuted law enforcement more than she did criminals; Steve Descano, who halted partnerships with ICE; Deborah Gonzalez, who refused to seek the death penalty, and others.

In addition to Grassley’s concerns with Vera, he also wrote about Impact Justice in his latest report.

This NGO, he wrote, was given money by the Biden DOJ to combat sexual abuse in prisons.

Grassley noted that it spent money pushing transgender housing policies for inmates, forcing female inmates to share prisons with biological men.