{"id":235491,"date":"2021-03-17T05:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=235491"},"modified":"2021-03-17T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:15:18","slug":"soros-backed-da-cut-plea-deals-with-violent-criminals-represented-by-campaign-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-da-cut-plea-deals-with-violent-criminals-represented-by-campaign-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Backed DA Cut Plea Deals With Violent Criminals Represented by Campaign Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoros-backed-da-cut-plea-deals-with-violent-criminals-represented-by-campaign-donors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=235491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1506.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner cut favorable plea deals with violent criminals represented by the progressive&#8217;s campaign donors, city financial records show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krasner took office in January 2018 after mounting an unconventional campaign that centered on his history of suing police officers as a civil rights attorney. Just five months later, he reached a plea agreement with two career criminals who murdered a Philadelphia cop, allowing them to avoid the death penalty. Defense attorneys Michael Coard and Daniel Stevenson oversaw the deal after donating a combined $2,700 to Krasner&#8217;s 2017 campaign. Coard\u2014who has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2015\/05\/04\/10-steps-end-police-brutality-slave-patrols\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">called<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> police departments &#8220;modern versions of colonial-era slave patrols&#8221;\u2014also served on Krasner&#8217;s transition team and vocally supported the progressive in 2017.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Democrats<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/soros-backed-da-cut-plea-deals-with-violent-criminals-represented-by-campaign-donors\/\"><strong>Soros-Backed DA Cut Plea Deals With Violent Criminals Represented by Campaign Donors<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/illinois-law-firm-fined-for-illegal-donations-to-failed-democratic-candidate\/\"><strong>Illinois Law Firm Fined for Illegal Donations to Failed Democratic Candidate<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/court-sanctions-star-democrat-election-lawyer-for-misleading-filings\/\"><strong>Court Sanctions Star Democrat Election Lawyer for \u2018Misleading&#8217; Filings<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months later, Krasner reached another controversial plea deal with a career criminal who shot a Philadelphia deli owner with an AK-47 during an armed robbery. Krasner campaign donor Philip Steinberg represented the shooter, who received as little as three-and-a-half years in prison for aggravated assault, a step below the attempted murder charge the DA&#8217;s office initially pursued. Krasner&#8217;s office also failed to inform the victim of the shooter&#8217;s plea hearing, a violation of state law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krasner is now facing a contentious reelection battle as local law enforcement groups argue that his &#8220;soft on crime&#8221; policies have led to a spike in violence. Twenty-twenty marked Philadelphia&#8217;s most violent year in three decades, with nearly 500 killed and more than 2,200 shot. The city experienced a rise in killings under Krasner even before destructive riots swept the nation in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death. Philadelphia saw 353 and 356 homicides in 2018 and 2019, respectively\u2014more than any year since 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a complete train wreck since [Krasner] has been in office. His failed social experiment has driven crime up, driven murders up,&#8221; Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;On the street, the criminals know that there are no repercussions. They call him \u2018Let \u2018Em Out Larry&#8217;\u2014it&#8217;s a joke.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krasner&#8217;s campaign did not return a request for comment. The progressive&#8217;s 2018 plea deal with cop killers Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams came after the pair fatally shot Sgt. Robert Wilson III while robbing a local GameStop. Wilson was at the store to buy a gift for his son and engaged the shooters, moving bystanders away while taking fire in an exchange that was caught on video.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coard, who represented Williams, called the plea agreement a &#8220;no brainer.&#8221; He told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philadelphia Tribune<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Hipps and Williams would &#8220;no doubt&#8221; get the death penalty without the deal given that they were &#8220;on videotape killing a cop.&#8221; Wilson&#8217;s family questioned Krasner&#8217;s objectivity in the case given Coard&#8217;s role on the progressive&#8217;s transition team, but both Coard&#8217;s and Stevenson&#8217;s campaign contributions went unnoticed. Coard gave Krasner&#8217;s campaign $2,500 in the 2017 cycle, while Stevenson gave $200. The pair has combined to give Krasner an additional $1,350 since September 2019.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coard could not be reached for comment. The Defender Association of Philadelphia, where Stevenson serves as homicide department head, did not return a request for comment. Krasner claimed at the time that he had not spoken to Coard about the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krasner initially defended the plea deal stemming from the deli robbery\u2014which saw Jovaun Patterson shoot owner Mike Poeng in the groin\u2014as &#8220;wholly appropriate.&#8221; Steinberg, who did not return a request for comment, defended Patterson after giving $500 to Krasner in June 2017. His law partner also contributed $300 to the progressive&#8217;s campaign at the time, according to state filings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poeng was in a coma for weeks after the shooting and is now unable to walk on his own, forcing him to give up his store. He told the <em>Philadelphia<\/em>&nbsp;<i>Inquirer<\/i> in 2018 that Krasner&#8217;s plea deal was &#8220;almost like \u2026 promoting a criminal to have an AK-47.&#8221; After the victim criticized the agreement, Krasner blamed the offer on an assistant district attorney and filed a motion asking a pleas court judge to reconsider Patterson&#8217;s sentence. Former U.S. attorney William McSwain responded by filing federal charges against Patterson, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to support from local defense attorneys, Krasner in 2017 benefited from nearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/george-soros-floods-local-da-races-1-7m-philadelphia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1.7 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in outside spending from George Soros. The liberal megadonor has spent millions backing progressives in district attorney races across the country.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner cut favorable plea deals with violent criminals represented by the progressive&#8217;s campaign donors, city financial records show. 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