Soros Backed Legal Group Founder Resigns Amid Racism Claims

Progressive activist Miriam Krinsky was at the top of her game in early 2024. As the founder and leader of Soros-backed Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), she helped support the day-to-day work of the nationwide wave of progressive prosecutors elected in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Then it all came to a screeching halt when her own staff accused her of being a racist, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

FJP, funded by billionaire financier George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, played a key role in supporting elected progressive prosecutors under Krinsky’s leadership from 2017 through 2024. The group paid for fellows to staff their offices, footed the bill for prosecutors to travel overseas to Europe to learn about “drug decriminalization,” and created training models to help the prosecutors “address systemic injustices” in the criminal justice system.

Krinsky’s September 2024 resignation—which FJP said was motivated by Krinsky’s desire to “spend more time with her family”—was a preview of the forthcoming electoral disaster for the group’s stable of elected progressive prosecutors, several of whom lost their jobs on Election Day last year. That includes former Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón, who was 1 of 12 out of the 25 Soros-backed prosecutors on the ballot last November who either lost their elections or faced successful recalls.

The former FJP leader’s downfall began on April 23, 2024, when an anonymous group of her own employees sent a message to the personal and work emails of 13 progressive prosecutors in the organization’s network. The employees accused Krinsky of making their black female colleagues “feel oppressed, slighted, and discriminated against,” though they did not detail any specific incidents.