Alvin Bragg's witchhunt against Donald Trump gave the Left a blueprint for weaponizing local DA offices.
Someone just franchised that blueprint to DA offices across the country.
And every Trump official in the country just landed in the crosshairs of rogue prosecutors.
Soros Funded Their Campaigns. Dark Money Is Funding the Lawfare.
The Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach — FAFO — launched in January 2026 with nine elected Democrat prosecutors pledging to charge federal agents who conduct immigration enforcement in their jurisdictions.
Philadelphia's Larry Krasner and Hennepin County, Minnesota's Mary Moriarty, both recipients of George Soros campaign funding, founded the coalition after federal agents shot and killed two people during immigration operations in Minneapolis.
Krasner set the tone at launch. He pledged to pursue federal agents "the way they hunted down Nazis for decades."
But FAFO is not operating on taxpayer money.
Norfolk, Virginia commonwealth's attorney Ramin Fatehi said in a February interview that the coalition has "money in a lock box that has been pledged for us … so that we can bring in the top lawyers in the country."
That fund is available to "anybody who has a federal official that they're prosecuting."
Nobody knows who filled that lock box.
Inside the Dark Money Network Bankrolling the FAFO Coalition
The money managers behind FAFO are veterans of the professional anti-Trump Left, operating in plain sight.
Defiance.org — cofounded by Miles Taylor, the former Trump DHS official who penned the infamous "Anonymous" New York Times op-ed declaring himself "part of the Resistance" inside the administration — told the Washington Free Beacon it "incubated" FAFO from its January launch and provided seed funding and a website.
When FAFO registered as its own nonprofit in Virginia in March, it listed its principal office at a Washington, D.C., address belonging to the law firm Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock. That firm's partners include former top attorneys for the Democrat National Committee.
All three board directors share the same ideological pedigree. One is a former Bernie Sanders campaign organizer who has called to "divest from policing." Another has filed formal ethics complaints against former Attorney General Pam Bondi. The third belongs to an international project whose published research most frequently targets the Trump administration.
Rachel Paulose, managing attorney at the Upper Midwest Law Center and a former U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, called the arrangement a threat to the foundations of impartial justice.
"The notion that an arm of the government would accept outside money to prosecute or target a political opponent or an ideological foe seems vindictive and contrary to basic notions of fairness." Outside funders with concealed identities, she added, have "an interest in impacting the evidence and the manner in which the evidence is presented."
John Hinderaker, president of the Minnesota-based think tank Center of the American Experiment, called it "a terribly corrupt arrangement" – warning that law enforcement "available to the highest bidder in any direction" is a danger no constitutional system should tolerate.
ICE Agents Already Charged – and the DOJ Is Now Investigating One FAFO Prosecutor
FAFO has moved beyond fundraising. Moriarty charged one ICE agent in April with second-degree assault and brought charges against a second the following month for allegedly fabricating the account of an attack he used to justify a shooting. Moriarty has also sued the Trump administration over evidence access in the Minneapolis cases.
Legal experts have questioned her standing. Federal agents carry immunity from state prosecution for conduct within the scope of their official duties.
And if FAFO's anonymous funding is helping finance Moriarty's cases, Paulose said it constitutes exculpatory evidence she is legally required to disclose to defendants – a disclosure the current statute does not explicitly compel but that could blow her cases apart in court.
Founding member Steve Descano – the Fairfax County, Virginia prosecutor who received more than $600,000 from the Justice and Public Safety PAC, a committee primarily funded by George Soros – is now under active federal investigation.
The Department of Justice announced the probe in May. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said investigators will determine whether Descano's office "discriminated against United States citizens by offering preferential treatment only to illegal alien criminal defendants" through a policy factoring immigration consequences into charging decisions and plea deals.
That same prosecutor is a founding member of the coalition now aiming to charge the agents enforcing the laws he reportedly bent for illegal aliens.
Legal Experts Say Secret Funding Creates Stunning Constitutional Concerns
The Soros prosecutor experiment produced a decade of documented results. Heritage Foundation researchers found that under Krasner's tenure, Philadelphia murders rose 63 percent and shootings climbed 78 percent.
Confronted with those numbers in 2021, Krasner said, "We don't have a crisis of lawlessness."
Krasner is FAFO's co-founder.
"There's a reason that taxpayers fund government offices," Paulose said. When anonymous money flows into prosecutorial decisions, someone other than the public is choosing who gets charged and why. The hidden donors behind FAFO have a stake in the outcome of every prosecution their money makes possible — they simply will not say what that stake is.
The Trump officials in FAFO's crosshairs were enforcing laws passed by Congress under orders from an elected president. The people financing the legal campaign against them will not put their names on it — which tells you everything about who is actually subverting the rule of law.
Sources:
- Jessica Costescu, "Terribly Corrupt: Coalition of Anti-Trump Prosecutors Bankrolled by Secret Donors Raises Stunning Constitutional Concerns, Legal Experts Say," Washington Free Beacon, July 10, 2026.
- "DOJ Probes Fairfax County Prosecutor Over Plea Deals for Immigrants," Fox News, May 8, 2026.
- "George Soros's Prosecutors Wage War on Law and Order," The Heritage Foundation, June 22, 2023.
- "Soros-Funded District Attorneys Form Coalition to Target Federal Immigration Agents," American Tribune, January 30, 2026.
