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Money from PAC funded by George Soros shakes up prosecutor races in Northern Virginia
A political action committee funded by Democratic megadonor and billionaire George Soros has made large contributions to two upstart progressive candidates attempting to unseat Democratic prosecutors in Northern Virginia primary races.
The generous support for Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney candidate Parisa Tafti and Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney candidate Steve Descano could shake up contests that rarely receive such national attention.
Tafti and Descano welcomed the contributions. But incumbents Theo Stamos and Raymond F. Morrogh denounced their opponents for taking the money, saying it made them beholden to the agenda of a political operative with no roots in Virginia.
The challengers received another high-profile push Monday, when a group of professional football stars who advocate for racial and social justice hosted a forum that featured Tafti and Descano. Morrogh and Stamos were also invited by the Players Coalition but had scheduling conflicts.
Soros-aligned PACs have given heavily to local prosecutor races across the country in recent years, helping tip contests to reformist Democratic candidates in Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston and elsewhere.
Criminal justice reform activists like Soros have targeted prosecutor races as one of the most direct routes to changing policy because the local offices wield wide power over who gets charged, what charges they face and who goes free on bond.
Larry Mitchell Hopkins
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Prosecutors: Militia group plotted to assassinate Obama, Hillary Clinton
A member of an anti-migrant militia in New Mexico pleaded not guilty Monday in a case that federal agents say involved plots to assassinate former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, new court records show.
Prosecutors say Larry Mitchell Hopkins led about 20 people in the United Constitutional Patriots group. Its members, FBI agents said, plotted the assassinations in recent years. The FBI began investigating Hopkins in 2017 and arrested him last weekend.
Hopkins, 69, entered the plea during his first court appearance on Monday to a charge of unlawful firearm possession. His attorney, Kelly O'Connell, said the guns and ammunition in question did not belong to Hopkins.
"According to the charges that I read, this is not dealing with what is happening down here," O'Connell said in reference to the militia allegedly detaining migrants at the border.
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Backstory: Tracking Africa’s smuggled gold
It then took almost another 15 months - and the contributions of colleagues and analysts across the world - to show how those discrepancies pointed to a vast web of smuggling operations, reaching from the pit mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo across the continent to the Gulf.
Reuters has now published the first results of all that work – an exclusive report on the billions of dollars' worth of gold spirited out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates, a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond. (here)