Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Referred For Criminal Investigation– thefederalist.com

Pointing to evidence of “false statements, false declarations made under oath, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy,” a federal judge has issued a memorandum asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and a top deputy in his office, Matthew Stiegler.

It’s familiar stuff. Krasner, a spectacularly woke prosecutor who won the office with lavish backing from George Soros, has a long history of scandal and crisis, and has been accused of misleading courts in several high-profile cases. This is an old headline from June, covering the same ground in a different matter:

The current controversy involves an effort by a convicted murderer, Dennis Johnson, to be freed from prison, turning to the federal courts with a repeated request for a writ of habeas corpus after state courts denied his several petitions for release. Turning to the agency that prosecuted Johnson’s 2009 murder case, many years before Krasner became the DA, the court asked the Philadelphia DA’s office if it opposed Johnson’s petitions. Without investigation, Krasner’s office conceded Johnson’s questionable claims about the supposedly flawed murder conviction, telling the court that prosecutors “did not oppose the granting of relief,” according to the memorandum.