The district attorney who refused to seek the maximum sentence for Laken Riley’s killer is one of three Soros-backed prosecutors to lose re-election this month.

District Attorney (DA) Deborah Gonzalez of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit, who made headlines for her soft treatment of convicted murderer Jose Ibarra, lost her re-election to challenger Kalki Yalamanchili by over 75% of the vote. 

Gonzalez was an active member of the organization Fair & Just Prosecution (FJP), a Leftist advocacy group funded by billionaire George Soros, which dictates both the public policy and private staffing of prosecutorial offices around the country.

FJP’s efforts to hijack American justice were detailed in Media Research Center’s August exposé: “How The Soros Machine Directs and Controls Prosecutors Across America to Implement His Leftist Agenda.”

Gonzalez was joined in defeat by fellow FJP members including Los Angeles County DA George Gascón and Alameda County DA Pamela Price. Gascón and Price were two of the last three remaining members of another Soros group, the censorship-obsessed Prosecutors Alliance of California, which worked closely with Governor Gavin Newsom to push an anti-police and anti-free speech agenda.

Gascón, one of the founders of Prosecutors Alliance, lost to challenger Nathan Hochman by over 600,000 votes. Similarly, Prosecutors Alliance member Price lost her recall election by over 30%. Their defeat has dealt a crushing blow to the organization and the Soros Machine backing it. Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton remains, and is arguably now California’s most radically Left-wing prosecutor.

Ibarra, a Venezuelan national released into the United States by the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS), beat Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley to death on February 22 of this year. Gonzalez chose not to pursue the death penalty, even though Ibarra had also attempted to rape Riley in broad daylight and had previously been charged with assaulting a child. Ibarra was convicted of Riley’s murder on November 20, just weeks after Yalamanchili’s victory.

Gascón, who was previously San Francisco DA, created the Prosecutors Alliance of California in 2020 with Cristine Soto Deberry, a Marin County politician and Newsom’s former deputy chief of staff. The Prosecutors Alliance, which was backed by the Soros-funded Tides Advocacy, was designed to be a far-Left replacement for the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA), which Gascón had very publicly quit. 

In August 2024, the Media Research Center (MRC) published detailed communications between the Prosecutors Alliance members showing their close relationship with Newsom and FJP. FJP pressured the Alliance’s members to sign pledges vowing to refuse to enforce certain laws that ran afoul of leftist political positions.

In one instance, FJP got Prosecutor Alliance attorneys to pledge that it was a “prosecutor’s obligation” to create blacklists of police officers who would not be permitted to testify in court — thereby undermining the officers’ careers. To implement the blacklist for Los Angeles County, Gascón’s director for ethics has been accused of illegally accessing private county personnel database files to obtain the records of “over 1,600 statutorily-protected peace officer files” — a serious crime for which she was indicted.

Gascón was sued separately for over $1.5 million for retaliation against attorneys who objected to his unlawful order that they not pursue prosecutions under certain California “criminal cases involving minors, including his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The lawsuit was successful.

The Prosecutors Alliance successfully lobbied the California State Senate to pass a police censorship bill which mandated that elected prosecutors who accept campaign contributions from organizations supporting law enforcement (including unions) give up their authority to prosecute police officers. Had the censorship bill been enacted, police would effectively have been forbidden from using their own money for political advocacy against the millions in propaganda against them.

When the California State Assembly refused to pass the Prosecutors Alliance’s censorship legislation, the group’s attorneys lobbied the state bar association to bypass the legislature and impose the speech restrictions via their own byzantine internal procedure.

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The Prosecutors Alliance’s members were Gascón, Price, Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton, San Francisco City & County DA Chesa Boudin and San Joaquin County DA Tori Verber Salazar. Berkeley, Long Beach, Glendale, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and Stockton were among the many cities under the Prosecutors Alliance attorneys’ jurisdiction.

In 2022, Boudin lost his recall election and Verber Salazar lost her primary re-election bid. Becton’s term is set to expire in 2026, but she may be removed from office early via a recall election.

Remaining Soros prosecutors like Becton face a new foe in tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk has pledged to use his patriotic advocacy group America PAC to further combat Soros’s influence over America’s justice system.

“Something has to be done to kind of counter the damage that Soros has done to the American system,” Musk pledged in an election day video uploaded to his social media platform, X. “America PAC’s going [t] aim to weigh in heavily on the midterms and intermediate elections, as well as just doing common sense stuff like having DAs who prosecute violent criminals who are obviously a danger to people.”

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Conservatives are under attack. Contact Governor Gavin Newsom and tell him to renounce his support for the Prosecutors Alliance of California. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

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Tim Kilcullen is Counsel for Investigations at the Media Research Center.

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