Leftist Los Angeles County DA George Gascón is directing prosecutors to let illegal immigrants under criminal investigation claim the charges could have “adverse immigration consequences” and thus avoid deportation.
The policy recommends that prosecutors examine alternatives to criminal convictions “such as avoiding charging for criminal enhancements, which can significantly increase one&#8217;s prison sentence, ‘that would turn an otherwise immigration neutral offense into an immigration damaging one,’” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/los-angeles-county-da-gascon-issues-directives-avoid-adverse-immigration-consequences">reported</a>.
“Sources within the L.A. DA&#8217;s office say this new directive from George Gascon allows anyone under criminal investigation to contact the DA&#8217;s office before a case is filed and notify them that charges could have ‘adverse immigration consequences,’” Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=404279&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20221208&amp;utm_content=story404279">stated</a>. “And if alternatives exist, DAs are told to pursue those instead.”
Speaking of the deportation of illegal immigrants due to criminal convictions, La Jeunesse stated, “Gascon does not want that to happen, telling his deputies don’t go to court, don’t file charges, plead it down, dismiss, or seek diversion without flagging immigration.”
“All charging determinations shall be undertaken with the goal of avoiding or mitigating adverse immigration consequences,” Gascón’s directive reads.
Tiffany Blackwell, communications director for the DA&#8217;s office, informed Fox News Digital, “We’ve consulted with our staff, community stakeholders and immigration experts to craft a comprehensive immigration policy that protects vulnerable victims and prioritizes safety while attempting to avoid overly punitive consequences for the accused. We believe that we have achieved that result.”
Meanwhile, La Jeunesse reported, deputies in Gascón’s office expect multitudinous requests from immigration lawyers, resulting in U.S. citizens facing more serious charges than illegal immigrants.
“That’s saying we’re giving better deals to someone because of their immigration status,” Eric Siddall, vice president of the Association for Deputy District Attorneys of Los Angeles County, told Fox News Digital.
In June, Gascón, whose soft-on-crime policies have been blamed for putting residents at risk, was harshly criticized after a notorious criminal murdered two police officers after he was given probation instead of a jail term in 2020 over an illegal gun charge.
Justin William Flores, on parole at the time of the shooting, made a plea deal whereby he received two years probation and 20 days in jail in 2020 because of Gascón’s policy of not prosecuting three-strike cases. Prior to Gascón’s policy, Flores could have been sent back to prison for a minimum of three years, as he had already served time in prison twice for felony burglary and car theft. Flores had been barred from carrying a gun since 2011.
“Court records also showed at least a dozen other prosecutions, many resolved with no contest pleas and probationary sentences, for charges such as driving with a suspended license, being under the influence of a controlled substance, or resisting arrest,” <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/el-monte-officers-murdered-alleged-killer-on-probation-for-illegal-gun/2917849/">NBC Los Angeles</a> reported. “Law enforcement sources told the I-Team they believed at least one of the two murdered officers would have recognized Flores on sight and by name.”
Gascón&#8217;s office defended the decision of the softer sentence for Flores, stating, “The sentence he received in the firearm case was consistent with case resolutions for this type of offense given his criminal history and the nature of the offense. At the time the court sentenced him, Mr. Flores did not have a documented history of violence,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10922519/LA-DA-George-Gascon-condemned-revealed-duty-cops-murdered-man-probation.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported.

District Attorney George Gascon details three misdemeanor charges filed against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, following an alleged domestic violence incident at Mirkarimi’s home on New Years Eve

Leftist L.A. DA Tells Prosecutors To Give Illegals Under Criminal Investigation A Way To Avoid Deportation

Leftist LA DA Tells Prosecutors To Give Illegals Under Criminal Investigation A Way To Avoid Deportation

Criminal Justice

Deportations

George Gascon

Illegal Immigration

Politics

U.S.

Thousands of convicted pedophiles in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> served less than a year in prison after committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, according to an investigative <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
The Daily Mail analyzed a statewide database of sex offenders that showed more than 7,000 child molesters were released within months after federal authorities sentenced them to prison.
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told Daily Mail that the statistics &#8220;shocked&#8221; him, adding the reality is &#8220;frightening for society.&#8221;
&#8220;Statistics clearly show that pedophiles don&#8217;t get reformed,&#8221; Dordulian said. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to come out, and they&#8217;re going to commit again. Letting these people out early, we&#8217;re allowing for a lot more victimization — and that&#8217;s terrifying.&#8221;
California law requires sex offenders to register their address and update their location upon moving with the Department of Justice. Those names and other personal details are then placed in a public database under Megan&#8217;s Law, which the Clinton administration passed in 1996 after a pedophile murdered 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
According to the report, 54,986 sex offenders were listed on the website in July 2019, of which 76% committed offenses involving children.
The average pedophile served two years and ten months in prison.
One of the examples outlined in the Daily Mail report said an offender in the database named Carlos Alexander Nahue, 48, of Reseda, California, lives one block from Royal Montessori School daycare and three blocks from Reseda Elementary School after allegedly being convicted of &#8220;continuous sexual abuse of a child&#8221; in 2015.
Authorities charged Nahue in October 2014. He pled no contest to the crime in January 2015, which resulted in a judge sentencing him to only two days in an L.A. county jail and five years of probation.
According to the database, some pedophiles committed misdemeanors, such as indecent exposure or attempting to send lewd pictures to children, and convicts received less jail time. However, the most common offenses were &#8220;lewd or lascivious acts&#8221; against children under 14 years old, and 7,152 pedophiles who committed this crime served less than a year.
Dordulian said the statistics were &#8220;&#8216;surprisingly very low.&#8221;
&#8220;In my days [in the L.A. DA&#8217;s office], we made every effort to get as long of a prison sentence as we could because we knew that the minute they&#8217;re going to come out, they&#8217;re more likely to re-offend and another child&#8217;s gonna get harmed,” he told Daily Mail.
Dordulian said as a lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse, California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s policies shorten prison sentences to reduce the population locked up.
&#8220;That has been the push for the last at least five years: letting people out of prison much earlier than what their sentences were for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But these types of individuals, they&#8217;re not amenable to rehabilitation, and studies have shown that. They&#8217;re gonna harm another child — It&#8217;s a very, very scary trend.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the state&#8217;s attorney general told Daily Mail that &#8220;public safety is a top priority for the California Department of Justice,&#8221; adding that the issue generally falls on the responsibility of local district attorneys, courts, and state lawmakers.
&#8220;Our office actively works with law enforcement across the state to protect our state&#8217;s children and families, whether that&#8217;s through conducting sting operations targeting sexual predators, issuing guidance to reduce harm to sexually exploited youth, or launching Human Trafficking and Sexual Predator Apprehension Teams,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a child abuse prosecutor in the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office, said the situation was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; to Daily Mail, adding the problem is only getting worse under his boss George Gascón, who supported Proposition 57, which allows early parole for nonviolent felons.
&#8220;Thousands of child victims are being denied justice, and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,&#8221; Hatami said.
Hatami said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stopped notifying the child victims and their families of such early releases.
&#8220;It&#8217;s shameful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Furthermore, most of these sex offenders who are released early have not been rehabilitated whatsoever. This will clearly endanger our future generation of children and our entire community — it&#8217;s a disgrace that the state of California is not prioritizing the safety and well-being of our children.&#8221;

Thousands Of Pedophiles Serve Less Than One Year In California Prisons: Report

California

Crime

Department of Justice

Gavin Newsom

Pedophilia

Charges against the CEO of an election technology company have been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/charges-dropped-against-election-software-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> after Los Angeles County prosecutors found “potential bias” in an investigation. 
Last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office brought charges against Eugene Yu, the head of Konnech, an election technology business out of Michigan. The charges concerned allegations of keeping information about poll workers on servers in China. Yu has maintained that he never provided any data to China. However, if the allegations were true, they would violate the company’s contract with L.A. County. 
The district attorney’s office said that the investigation was initiated because of a concern raised by Gregg Phillips, who is connected to True the Vote, a nonprofit out of Texas that aims to promote election integrity.
&#8220;We are concerned about both the pace of the investigation and the potential bias in the presentation and investigation of the evidence,&#8221; Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s office <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/la-dismisses-charges-against-ceo-election-software-firm-2022-11-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;As a result, we have decided to ask the court to dismiss the current case, and alert the public in order to ensure transparency.”
&#8220;Mr. Yu&#8217;s good name was tarnished by false narratives from fringe conspiracy theorists who bragged about enlisting Los Angeles prosecutors to further their political agenda,&#8221; Gary Lincenberg, an attorney for Yu in the criminal case, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/la-dismisses-charges-against-ceo-election-software-firm-2022-11-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;Mr Yu is an innocent man.”
New charges could still be brought as the Los Angeles Superior Court judge agreed to the dismissal without prejudice.
Over the summer, True the Vote announced that it had discovered and downloaded Konnech’s poll worker information from China-based servers. The group <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/konnech-eugene-yu-charges-dropped.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> gave no proof but said it had given a hard drive to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
Phillips and Catherine Englebrecht, who is also connected to True the Vote, were sued by Yu over hacking and defamation allegations. They were put in jail on October 31 after they refused to provide information on a &#8220;confidential FBI informant&#8221; connected to their alleged hack of Konnech’s information. They were <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/07/true-the-vote-jail-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imprisoned</a> for contempt of court and released earlier this week. 
After her release, Engelbrecht <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/07/true-the-vote-jail-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Texas Tribune that she was “hours from home” and could not do an interview. 
“Those who thought that imprisoning Gregg and I would weaken our resolve have gravely miscalculated. It is stronger than ever,” Engelbrecht said in a statement. “We are profoundly grateful for that. We will continue to protect and defend those who do the vital work of election integrity, and we will make sure that their findings become a matter of public record.”

A voting sign outside a Polling Station. Photographer: Marco Bello/Bloomberg

Charges Dropped Against CEO Of Election Tech Company

Charges Dropped Against CEO Eugene Yu Of Election Tech Company Konnech

Elections

Los Angeles County

Two months after the effort to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón failed, the campaign committee <a href="https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/for-immediate-release-initial-review-reveals-substantial-number-of-improperly-invalidated-signatures-recall-committee-to-file-for-injunctive-relief-against-registrar-of-voters/">announced</a> Monday it plans to sue the county’s Registrar of Voters, alleging the voter rolls were artificially inflated, and some signatures were falsely invalidated.
According to the Committee, independent and non-partisan data analysts estimated that Los Angeles County active voter rolls were allegedly overshot between at least 208,000 and up to 515,000 voters when county officials initially set the number of valid signatures for the recall to qualify.
If the estimate proves true, the effort to remove Gascón from office could have advanced onto a ballot.
“The initial review of invalidated signatures demonstrated “the Registrar’s counting process was seriously flawed, resulting in substantial errors, the wrongful invalidation of many valid signatures, and the disenfranchisement of thousands of Los Angeles County Voters,” the Committee wrote in a <a href="https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/for-immediate-release-initial-review-reveals-substantial-number-of-improperly-invalidated-signatures-recall-committee-to-file-for-injunctive-relief-against-registrar-of-voters/">statement</a>. “These extremely disturbing findings necessitate a complete and timely review of all invalidated signatures.”
The effort to recall Gascón emerged after the controversial district attorney took office in December 2020. Critics of Gascón formed the recall after his so-called progressive policies, like eliminating cash bail for misdemeanor and some felony offenses, reformed the City of Angels.
According to the Committee, volunteers began reviewing the invalid signatures on September 6 to lawfully examine within 21 days after the Registrar’s office announced the petition had failed to meet the requirements.
The Committee claims that 39% of invalid signatures reviewed were improperly falsified as printed, non-matching, and unregistered. Others were marked invalid due to duplicate signatures, while some had filled in a different address instead of the one registered toward the voter.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan said last August his office had finished verifying the 715,833 petition signatures sent in to recall the controversial progressive DA.
To qualify for the recall, 566,857 valid petition signatures were needed to advance.
Logan’s office reported only 520,050 valid signatures were recorded, with the remaining 195,783 signatures marked as invalid, claiming ​nearly 90,000 of them were unregistered to vote and approximately 45,000 were duplicates. ​
Officials argue such issues could have substantially affected the outcome of the recall and have accused the Registrar of placing “arbitrary and capricious limitations” on the review process that limits the number of hours, workstations, and number of reviewers to information that will help them determine whether the invalid signatures are legitimate.​”
“This review is currently being obstructed by the Registrar’s office,” the Committee <a href="https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/for-immediate-release-initial-review-reveals-substantial-number-of-improperly-invalidated-signatures-recall-committee-to-file-for-injunctive-relief-against-registrar-of-voters/">said</a>. “The Recall DA George Gascon Committee will be filing for injunctive relief imminently and is also exploring other significant issues, such as the inaccurate and inflated number of signatures required to qualify the recall due to bloated voter rolls.”
A Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office spokesperson told The Daily Wire that officials have not seen the petition for relief yet.
Recall officials said that current restrictions imposed by the Registrar would take more than a year to review the invalidated signatures.

Los Angeles County DA George Gascón Touts Reforms During First Year

George Gascón Recall Campaign To Sue L.A. County Registrar For Inflated Voter Rolls Allegations

Los Angeles

Recall

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> residents are offering new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a> hires a generous incentive.
Angelenos are pooling their money to offer new cops thousands of dollars in rent money as the city battles both a crime wave and a police shortage.
The program, called Housing for Hires, awards new LAPD hires huge rent subsidies of up to $24,000 over two years for housing in the Los Angeles area.
So far, the program has <a href="https://labusinessjournal.com/real-estate/housing/lapd-moves-ahead-with-housing-plan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised</a> $2.2 million, enough money to fund rent subsidies for 200 new recruits, but the LAPD is hoping to more than double that number.
The money is not coming out of the LAPD budget, but from private donations to the Los Angeles Police Foundation, meaning residents are now willing to reach for their wallets to get more cops to live and work in the city.
Some landlords are also participating in the program, offering rent discounts to new cops.
“The overall goal is to have the real estate community come in and offer a discount to the recruits,” <a href="https://labusinessjournal.com/real-estate/housing/lapd-moves-ahead-with-housing-plan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Captain Aaron McCraney, who leads the LAPD&#8217;s Recruitment and Employment Division.
Los Angeles Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff came up with the idea for the rent subsidy program.
&#8220;The issue of recruitment of cops is now a national crisis for multiple reasons, and this arrow in our recruitment quiver has been invaluable for the safety of every Angeleno,&#8221; Soboroff said.
New LAPD officers receive a starting salary of about $80,000, so a $24,000 rent subsidy means they would be making upwards of six figures. 
However, the cost of living in Los Angeles has increased drastically over the last few years. According to one <a href="https://smmirror.com/2022/05/los-angeles-metro-sees-15-9-percent-increase-in-median-rent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a>, the Los Angeles metropolitan area now has a median rent of over $2,200, up from less than $1,950 in 2019, a jump of nearly 16%.
Meanwhile, the police department has been dealing with a staffing shortage.
In August, Police Chief Michel Moore <a href="https://abc7.com/lapd-underemployed-officers-staffing-goals/12161466/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the force was down about 176 officers and response times for urgent calls had gotten longer due to the shortage. The pool of applicants has also gotten smaller, Moore said.
&#8220;Policing is pulling from an increasingly smaller pool of interested applicants for a variety of reasons, and so we have to be better at being upfront and being a world class agency,&#8221; Moore said.
Currently, the LAPD has just under 9,300 police officers total in the department, according to McCraney.
Meanwhile, violent crime in Los Angeles has spiraled.
As of the end of July, homicides in Los Angeles County had <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/inside-the-issues/2022/07/27/lapd-chief-addresses-the-rise-in-crime-and-violence-in-l-a--county-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">risen</a> 30% since 2020 to more than 200 homicides so far this year. Shooting victims were up 43% since 2020 to nearly 800 victims.
Some incidents have gone viral online, including looting sprees and groups of people taking over intersections to do donuts with their cars.
Police say a big driver of rising crime is Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s progressive policies, which tend to favor being lenient on criminals, even violent repeat offenders. Los Angeles law enforcement was particularly <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/woke-la-da-george-gascon-blamed-for-shooting-deaths-of-two-cops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outraged</a> after the murder of two California police officers by an alleged gang member who was out on probation.
Meanwhile the district attorney’s office often <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-da-gascon-crime-policies-over-criminalize-communities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blames</a> police for rising crime, saying cops are part of the problem. A recall effort against Gascon failed earlier this year.

March Against Trump’s Immigration Policies Takes Place In Los Angeles

Los Angeles Residents Offer New Cops Huge Rent Subsidy

Los Angeles Police Department

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-calls-chinese-dictators-clothes-hip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> story Monday about a group of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-democrat-congressman-jailed-for-committing-election-fraud-to-help-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">far-right election deniers</a>” aged especially poorly when the same journalist was forced to write a story making their case the very next day.
The initial story claimed that a “conspiracy theory” about an elections software company having ties to Beijing was a pack of lies that left the owner, a Chinese immigrant, in tears. But the very next day, Konnech founder and CEO Eugene Yu, was arrested by L.A. County’s liberal district attorney for allegedly giving the Chinese government access to the personal data of nearly two million U.S. poll workers.
“I have never seen anything age this poorly, this quickly,” The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway quipped on Twitter.
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Oct. 3: lengthy feature &quot;debunking&quot; a &quot;conspiracy theory&quot; about security of poll worker data. Oct. 4: arrest on just that charge.
All from a newspaper that spent *years* pushing the absurd conspiracy theory that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1577511700877774848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Times reporter Stuart Thompson’s Monday story reported on the election integrity advocacy group True the Vote, which claimed in August to have hacked into Konnech’s database and learned that the company stored data on a server in China, which would be illegal.
“In the ensuing weeks, the conspiracy theory grew as it shot around the internet,” Thompson wrote. “To believers, the claims showed how China had gained near complete control of America’s elections.”
Yu told Thompson True the Vote’s claims were false and denied that his company had any ties to Beijing. Yu claimed to have received death threats and gone into hiding as a result of True the Vote’s allegations.
“I’ve cried,” Yu, who sued True the Vote over the allegations, told the Times. “Other than the birth of my daughter, I hadn’t cried since kindergarten.”
A day later, Thompson reported that Yu was arrested in Los Angeles “in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers.” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón alleged that Konnech had indeed stored American poll workers’ data on servers in China.
Yu was arrested in Meridian Township, Michigan, by investigators from the LA District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation with help from local police. Gascón said his office is seeking extradition. In addition to the arrest, hard drives and other digital evidence were seized by Gascón&#8217;s investigators.
“Data breaches are an ongoing threat to our digital way of life,&#8221; Gascón said in a statement. &#8220;When we entrust a company to hold our confidential data, they must be willing and able to protect our personal identifying information from theft. Otherwise, we are all victims.&#8221;
Konnech, which sells its PollChief election-worker management system software to local jurisdictions, had a $2.9 million contract with LA County. The software manages poll worker assignments, communications and payroll and collects personal identifying information. Konnech was required to securely maintain the data and prevent access by anyone but U.S. citizens or permanent residents, but investigators alleged information was stored on servers in China.
True the Vote officials praised Gascón, a liberal prosecutor who has been harshly criticized by conservatives for his soft-on-crime policies, for &#8220;rapid action&#8221; in the case. The group blasted media outlets including The New York Times for &#8220;unblinkingly&#8221; accepting Konnech&#8217;s version of events.
“Election integrity should not be a partisan issue, nor should media try to suppress all conversation about it in a way that benefits one party,&#8221; said True the Vote Founder Catherine Engelbrecht. &#8220;We will continue to report evidence of threats to our election process and work with law enforcement to ensure our elections are a secure space for all American voters.”

The New York Times

New York Times Faceplants In 1 Day Over China Election ‘Conspiracy Theory’

New York Times Faceplants In 1 Day Over China Election 'Conspiracy Theory' 

Election 2020

New York Times

A young mother who was slammed into by a teenage driver while she was carrying her eight-month-old baby ripped leftist Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón for not notifying her the youth was going to plead for early release.
The teenager was sentenced to five to seven months in a juvenile probation camp after he hit the woman — identified as Rachel — in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles in August 2021 while he was intoxicated, then fled in a car that he had stolen.
“I remain incredibly disappointed with the justice system in LA but I am unsurprised to learn that I am yet again being denied my rights as a victim to participate and use my voice in the judicial process. F*** George Gascón,” Rachel told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-wrong-way-hit-run-driver-plowed-mom-baby-stolen-car-wants-early-release">Fox News Digital</a>.
Rachel had hoped for a harsher initial sentence for the teenager, who had no driver’s license and was already on probation for felony poisoning after he allegedly spiked a high school girl&#8217;s drink. She had expected that any hearing for the teenager would come near the end of his probation in early November.
“I thought those were the last moments of our lives; we were dead,&#8221; she said in a victim impact statement, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11237809/LA-hit-run-driver-plowed-mom-baby-asks-let-punishment-EARLY.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported. &#8220;That feeling, along with the memory of a car accelerating directly into us, will haunt me forever. &#8230; As the car approached me and my child, I stopped walking and moved the stroller and myself up against a building on the right side of the road to ensure that we gave the reckless driver plenty of room to pass. As the car got dangerously close to us, KB turned the wheels in our direction and accelerated as he aimed to kill us.”
“I was also told that his record would be wiped clean when he turns 18,” she added. “How on earth can that be? He tried to murder two innocent pedestrians. Murder. And we have video evidence. My child would be dead if I hadn&#8217;t been there to protect him.”
“George Gascón doesn&#8217;t value my life or the life of my child, or any other victim out there and would rather reward the monsters like KB by demonstrating to them that their actions have no consequences,” she said. “DA Gascón is telling him and every other thug in LA County that it doesn&#8217;t matter if you try to murder people. Why are Gascón’s policies prioritizing the livelihood of rotten monsters when my child, my baby, who is incapable of protecting himself, is left to fend for himself, and is essentially being told his life doesn&#8217;t matter?”
When a 26-year-old man, Hannah Tubbs — who claims to be a transgender woman — pled guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl as a teen, Gascón insisted the man should be tried as a juvenile. Then his staff “learned that Fox News was preparing to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-hannah-tubbs-jailhouse-phone-calls">publish</a> jailhouse recordings in which Tubbs crowed about receiving a light sentence and spoke derisively about the victim,” the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-21/gascon-reversed-himself-sentence-hannah-tubbs-who-assaulted-child">Los Angeles Times</a> reported, and Gascón changed his mind.
“Line prosecutors told The Times the turnabout was especially galling because the jail recordings have been known inside the district attorney’s office for at least a month and did not alter Gascón’s approach previously,” The Times added.

US-POLITICS-GASCON

‘F*** George Gascon’: Young Mother Who Was Carrying Baby When Teenage Driver Hit Her Lashes Out

Young Mother Who Was Carrying Baby When Teenage Driver Hit Her Lashes Out At George Gascon

The team behind the effort to recall Left-wing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles-county">Los Angeles County</a> District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-gascon">George Gascón</a> tells The Daily Wire that any allegations of negligence and illegal activity in the campaign were false. 
Last week, a <a href="https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/08/18/exclusive-recall-gascon-committee-failed-to-pre-validate-signatures-hired-incompetent-vendors-n614367">report</a> emerged that willful negligence and illegal activity were key reasons why the rejection of the petition to recall Gascón failed. The measure will not be on the November ballot after not enough signatures were validated by the county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk to qualify. 
Recall Gascón campaign spokesperson Tim Lineberger responded to the allegations, telling The Daily Wire that the report was “riddled with demonstrably false assertions and contradicts itself repeatedly.”
He also said that the campaign needed to get over 566,000 signatures in 160 days, which he called “an unprecedented effort that far exceeds any comparable threshold.”
L.A. County law stipulates that 10% of all registered county voters are needed for a recall petition. For comparison, the attempt to recall Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) needed about 12% of voters from the prior gubernatorial election while the successful effort to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin needed about 51,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot.
The report that the recall campaign is disputing cited an inside source, who alleged ineligible signatures were intentionally used to pad signature count updates. The report also alleged that campaign employees were told to forge the signatures of circulators if necessary and that consultants involved were motivated more by financial gain than by the success of the recall. 
Lineberger said that any allegations of illegality were “bulls***.” He also told The Daily Wire that the recall campaign plans on reviewing the final count and making sure that no one who signed the petition was disenfranchised. 
“While we still intend to review the final count and ensure no voter was disenfranchised, assuming the results do not change, all facts, finance reports, and publicly available information demonstrate the campaign was extremely diligent throughout the process and did everything possible to make this happen, often times to our own personal financial, physical, and emotional detriment,” he said. 
Another analysis of why the effort failed has looked at disputes between the group Let the Voters Decide and the recall campaign. Let the Voters Decide was a group paid to collect signatures for the campaign. It <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2022/08/18/finger-pointing-erupts-among-backers-of-gascon-recall/">claims</a> that the campaign was handled poorly and is suing over campaign-related charges. 
Despite the feuds over the handling of the campaign, L.A. County voters will be able to decide Gascón’s political future when he is back on the ballot in November 2023.
“People can say whatever they want, it will not stop us from continuing to do everything we can to remove Gascón from office, whether that’s now or in 2024. Thanks in part to the recall effort, Gascón is a wounded animal and his time is running out,” Lineberger said.

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Recall Gascón Campaign Denies Negligence Allegations After Recall Failure

Recall Gascón Campaign Responds To Negligence Allegations

An exclusive <a href="https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/08/18/exclusive-recall-gascon-committee-failed-to-pre-validate-signatures-hired-incompetent-vendors-n614367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by RedState found that the campaign to recall Los Angeles District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-gascon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Gascón</a> was unsuccessful due to the campaign’s negligence and willingness to turn in invalid petition signatures, mislead donors, and allegedly request workers to break the law. 
On August 15, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LA</a> County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RRCC) Dean Logan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-gascon-recall-effort-fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the recall campaign had not successfully turned in the necessary amount of signatures. Of the more than 715,000 signatures given to Logan, over 195,000 were found to be invalid. 
“Based on the examination and verification, which conducted in compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements of the California Government Code, Elections Code, and Code of Regulations, 520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid,” Logan’s office <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-county-da-george-gascon-recall-petition-found-insufficient-qualify-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news release.
The recall effort needed to submit 566,857 valid petition signatures in order to qualify for the ballot in November. 
RedState had discussions with sources and whistleblowers and examined materials surrounding the recall effort’s failure. The outlet claimed that the effort was unsuccessful because the campaign’s funds were under the thumb of political consultants who worked with vendors in a dishonest way and were more committed to making money than turning in accurate signatures. 
Cassandra Vandenberg was widely known as the person in charge of the committee, but an anonymous whistleblower told RedState that Vandenberg was aware signatures were being included from people who were located outside of the county or non-voters and told campaign staff to keep them on the petitions “because we need the numbers.”
RedState reportedly spoke to witnesses and examined documents that showed a large number of circulators — the people who collect the signatures — didn’t finish the attestation section correctly. The person who collected the signatures is required to attest to every page of signatures. These mistakes were not noticed by hired validation firms, the firm that collected signatures, or the campaign committee until the petitions were almost ready to be submitted on July 6, according to the report. 
Vandenberg allegedly told campaign employees — in the presence of several deputy district attorneys — to forge signatures of the circulators in the attestation section, which are signed under threat of perjury.
The campaign also hired Let the Voters Decide (LTVD), a signature-gathering firm, with whom they have ongoing litigation, RedState reported. LTVD claims they didn’t carry out any verification because they were aware that the validation firms were doing that.
Multiple L.A. County residents also complained of the strange and pushy behavior of the signature gatherers, with one Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/MsRedbarn/status/1559918759472611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1559919491554762752%7Ctwgr%5Eff5383f2768fc12d8e8160f57f9d8bf0b7d6b9e5%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/08/18/exclusive-recall-gascon-committee-failed-to-pre-validate-signatures-hired-incompetent-vendors-n614367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commenting</a> that they asked her to sign even though she had already done so. 
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There were signature gatherers in Long Beach/ Lakewood area that were from Texas, I asked them why they’d move to California from Texas, woman told me they came to work. I asked doing signature gathering.. yes. No harm I guess but they were clueless to how bad Gascon is.
&mdash; Ms. Redbarn (@MsRedbarn) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsRedbarn/status/1559918759472611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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LTVD also submitted tens of thousands of signatures on the last day. Sources reportedly told RedState that there were ongoing negotiations over payment between the group and Vandenberg, with Vandenberg telling the office a few days before the deadline that she needed to bring in over $700,000 that weekend. Some people theorized this was because she needed to pay LTVD so they would turn over their signatures, but she didn’t explain the reason, according to the outlet. People within the campaign said Vandenberg doubled that threshold, the report stated. 
The outlet also reported that documents revealed that the campaign committee overly exaggerated the amount of signatures gathered at specific times during the campaign in order to get more financial donations.  
The campaign complained about procedural items concerning the count, which RedState says are not entirely fair. Logan’s office, however, had not given the committee information about how they can examine the rejected signatures and verification procedure as of August 17, per RedState’s sources. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/recall-gascon-campaign-denies-negligence-allegations-after-recall-failure">RELATED: Recall Gascón Campaign Denies Negligence Allegations After Recall Failure</a>

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Report: Gascón Recall Campaign Failed Due to Negligence, Knowingly Submitted Bad Signatures

The attempt to recall Los Angeles District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-gascon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Gascón</a> has <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/08/los-angeles-district-attorney-george-gascon-revises-crime-politicies-1234957233/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to secure enough valid signatures to take the decision to the ballot, according to the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. 
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan said his office had finished the examination and verification of the 715,833 petition signatures sent in to recall the controversial progressive DA. 
&#8220;Based on the examination and verification, which conducted in compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements of the California Government Code, Elections Code, and Code of Regulations, 520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid,&#8221; Logan’s office <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-county-da-george-gascon-recall-petition-found-insufficient-qualify-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news release.
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BREAKING: The effort to recall L.A. DA <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeGascon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GeorgeGascon</a> has FAILED to qualify for the ballot. The Registrar-Recorders office announced only 520,050 of the 715k+ signatures it collected were valid. It needed 566,857. Details below. <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/uoEo473QBO">pic.twitter.com/uoEo473QBO</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1559283188064722946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In order to qualify for the recall to be taken to the ballot, there needed to be 566,857 valid petition signatures.
&#8220;[T]herefore, the petition has failed to meet the sufficiency requirements and no further action shall be taken on the petition,&#8221; the release said.
The invalid signatures included 88,464 that were not registered, 43,593 duplicates, 32,187 had a different address, 9,490 had a mismatched signature, 7,344 were canceled, 5,374 were out of county addresses, and 9,331 were labeled as “Other.”
The recall effort now has 21 days to start examining the signatures if they wish to do so. 
Gascón has repeatedly been criticized for implementing policies that don’t properly punish criminals, which opponents argue have made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> more dangerous. 
“As soon as he was sworn into office, District Attorney George Gascon began issuing directives to his prosecutors, instructing them to go soft on crime, coddle criminals, and trample upon the dignity and rights of crime victims,” the Recall DA George Gascon website <a href="https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/why-recall-da-george-gascon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. “To keep our communities safe, to mete out just punishment to those who break our laws, and to provide justice to crime victims throughout Los Angles County, we must recall District Attorney George Gascon.”
Gascón <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-da-george-gascon-faces-blowback-in-first-months-of-launching-ambitious-slate-toward-criminal-justice-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaigned</a> on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/George_Gasc%C3%B3n_recall,_Los_Angeles_County,_California_(2021-2022)#cite_note-addtlinfo-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a> he later implemented, such as not pursuing the death penalty, not prosecuting minors as adults, and stopping cash bails for certain crimes. 
In June of last year, Gascón <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-da-george-gascon-addresses-opposition-to-his-reforms-amid-recall-effort/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">addressed</a> the uptick in crime. 
“The reality is crime has been going up, in fact, in L.A. County we had a 25% increase in violent crime over the last seven years because we continue to do the same things over and over again, expecting different results,” Gascón said. “What I am doing is, I am revamping the way that we address violence by using science, using data, taking a public health lens approach with the way that we deal with crime.”
San Francisco District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chesa-boudin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chesa Boudin</a> was recently successfully recalled after facing similar criticism. 
The Daily Wire has reached out to the Recall DA George Gascon campaign for comment.

&lt;&gt; on May 5, 2010 in San Francisco, California.

George Gascón Recall Effort Fails

Progressive Los Angeles DA George Gascón Recall Effort Fails To Gain Enough Valid Petition Signatures

Six counts of murder and five counts of gross vehicular manslaughter were charged against a registered nurse Monday in connection with a multi-vehicle fiery crash in Los Angeles last week that killed six people, including an unborn child and a nearly one-year-old baby.
According to a Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-08/mercedes-driver-charged-with-murder-in-windsor-hills-crash">report</a>, prosecutors accused Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, of reckless disregard for life involving the deadly six-vehicle crash on August 4 that also hospitalized eight more people with injuries.
Linton allegedly zoomed down La Brea Avenue at 90 mph in her Mercedes-Benz, blasting through a red light as dozens of cars crossed Slauson avenue. Video footage shows the reckless car t-boning a black sedan and starting a raging fire by a nearby gas station.
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&#8220;In an instant, Ms. Linton&#8217;s conduct took the lives of six people and injured many others,&#8221; Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón said, adding she could face up to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
One witness said the crash ejected the baby from the intersection to a nearby gas station before landing in front of her.
&#8220;One of the workers came and saw me with the baby and took the baby out of my hands,&#8221; Esquivel <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fiery-deadly-crash-suspect-in-custody-l-a-area/">said</a>. &#8220;Somebody tried to resuscitate the baby, but the baby was gone.&#8221;
Alphonso Ward, a witness, told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/locals-react-to-fiery-windsor-hills-crash-that-killed-6-including-infant-and-unborn-child/">CBS News</a> that the children never had a chance for survival.
&#8220;It was seeing the kids — that&#8217;s what got to me,&#8221; Ward said. &#8220;Thinking about that mother who was probably happy to be having a baby. But she&#8217;s gone.&#8221;
If prosecutors can prove Linton acted with implied malice and knew the act of driving at high speed on city streets was dangerous to human life, she could also face second-degree murder convictions. Prosecutors said such cases are usually brought against a driver who was under the influence, had a history of prior DUI convictions, and attended DUI classes.
According to California Highway Patrol, Linton was involved in 13 prior crashes, which gave the district attorney a case for knowingly posing a threat with her reckless driving.
Despite reports of a woman who alleged she was drinking alcohol with Linton, authorities have not discovered any evidence at this point to suggest Linton was driving under the influence, Gascón said.
&#8220;The CHP is working to identify this person, but we don&#8217;t have any further information,&#8221; he said.
The Los Angeles Times reports prosecutors said Linton, who works as a traveling nurse, rents a room in Los Angeles and has a permanent address in Texas. Before last week&#8217;s crash, the nurse had set up plans to travel to Hawaii for work.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Natalie Stone denied Linton&#8217;s $9 million bail at the request of the district attorney&#8217;s office, citing she is a flight risk and should have been aware of her limitation before driving.
Judge Stone set Linton&#8217;s hearing for August 15.
Attorney Halim Dhanidina claims Linton also has an out-of-state history of &#8220;documented profound mental health issues&#8221; but did not link those factors with the deadly crash.
The Los Angeles County coroner&#8217;s office identified the deaths of 23-year-old Asherey Ryan; her nearly 1-year-old child, Alonzo Quintero; her boyfriend, Reynold Lester; and their 8 ½ months unborn child, who was to be named Armani Lester.
Latanda Guy, Lester&#8217;s mother, told The Los Angeles Times that her son had just begun building his family.
&#8220;They were looking forward to starting a family,&#8221; Guy said.
Two other women killed in the crash have yet to be identified.
The Los Angeles Times reports Linton faces five counts of vehicular manslaughter for the deaths of the four adults and the nearly one-year-old baby. Ryan&#8217;s unborn child cannot be included in those charges.
Authorities told The Los Angeles Times Linton suffered moderate injuries from the crash, which included a broken foot and wrist.
Eric Quintanar contributed to this report.

Multiple people were killed in a fiery crash near a Windsor Hills gas station at the intersection of West Slauson and South La Brea avenues

Woman Accused Of Causing Deadly Los Angeles Crash Charged With Murder; History Of Reckless Driving

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Seeing the backlash across the United States against woke city district attorneys, including the ouster of ultra-Left San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin in July, billionaire George Soros, indifferent to Americans’ concerns, vowed to continue supporting them with his vast fortune.
The Capital Research Center <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/">reported</a> in January that since 2016, their researchers tracked over $29 million in funding from Soros “through a personal network of political action committees (PACs) formed specifically to back left-wing DA candidates.”
“I have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping,” Soros acknowledged in his <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441">opinion piece</a> in The Wall Street Journal.
Soros wrote “Our system is rife with injustices that make us all less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false.”
“Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I’ve seen says otherwise,” Soros insisted.
Yet here are some statistics compiled by <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/other-woke-das-who-could-ousted-like-san-franciscos-chesa-boudin/">The New York Post</a> of some of the most famous leftist DAs — all Democrats— and the rise in crime in their jurisdictions:
<blockquote>Recently-deposed Chesa Boudin of San Francisco: violent crimes: up 4%, year to date; property crimes: up 8.2%, year to date; total crime rate: up 7.8%, year to date.
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan: major crime rate: up 43.2%, year to date.
George Gascón, Los Angeles: violent crimes: up 7.7%, year to date; property crimes: up 13.3%, year to date; total crime rate: up 11.9%, year to date.
Kim Foxx, Chicago: major crime rate: up 34%, year to date.
Larry Krasner, Philadelphia: violent crimes: up 6.3%, year to date; property crimes: up 27.1%, year to date; total crime rate: up 22.2%, year to date.
Kevin Hayden, Boston: violent crimes: up 4.4%, year to date; property crimes: up 4.8%, year to date; total crime rate: up 4.7%, year to date.</blockquote>
The denial of how leftist policies have led to a rise in crime is not restricted to Soros; when Gascón, who faces a potential recall and <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/01/george-soros-vows-to-keep-backing-woke-das-despite-urban-crime-spikes/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">received</a> nearly $3 million in campaign funds from Soros, was <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-da-gascon-responds-to-soft-on-crime-criticism/">asked</a> by news anchors to critics calling him a “soft-on-crime” DA while his city has been blitzed by an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-cities-pace-pass-violent-crime-2022">8.6% rise</a> in violent crime over the past year, he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/george-gascon-claims-l-a-county-is-safer-in-some-areas-because-of-his-policies-despite-rise-in-violent-crime-over-past-year/">answered</a> that he believed Los Angeles was safer under his tenure, claiming, “Yeah, in some areas it is. &#8230; I know how to keep communities safe.”

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‘I Have No Intention Of Stopping’: Belligerent Soros Says He Will Continue Funding Leftist DAs

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