A George Soros-funded nonprofit that steers left-wing prosecutors in major American cities is in turmoil after much of its minority staff ...
A George Soros-funded nonprofit that steers left-wing prosecutors in major American cities is in turmoil after much of its minority staff accused their leader of being racist and abusive.
Long-simmering discontent at Fair and Just Prosecution reached a new high in April when Sherry Boston, the elected district attorney of Dekalb County, Georgia, accused FJP Executive Director Miriam Krinsky of racism for excluding her from a New York City event, emails obtained by The Daily Wire show.
Krinsky, who is white, replied by disparaging Boston and saying she was excluded from events because of merit, not race. Krinsky appeared to suggest that Boston, a black Democrat, had failed to advance “racial justice” by prosecuting too many crimes.
Tensions continued escalating in the ensuing months, as staff members accused Krinsky of misconduct, abuse, harassment, and retaliation.
“The workplace culture under Miriam’s leadership is oppressively authoritarian,” disaffected employees, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Daily Wire in an email. “Miriam manipulates a predominantly young, minority staff—exploiting their inexperience and the existing racial dynamics within the organization to tighten her grip on power.”
The staffers said they had faced retaliation for sounding the alarm about racism within the group, and that the leaders of the anti-police movement were quick to weaponize law enforcement to inflict it.
“FJP, backed by Tides, are using law enforcement to retaliate against both current and former employees who have raised concerns about the organization’s practices. Some of these employees were wrongfully terminated and now face legal threats simply for attempting to do the right thing. Disturbingly, the organization has even orchestrated fake wellness checks as a means to weaponize the police—the same police they advocate should be defunded,” the employees said.
Krinsky has led FJP since the group’s inception in 2017. A Daily Wire analysis of archived versions of FJP’s website shows significant staff turnover. The group lost 6 of 16 employees in 2020, 7 more in 2021, and 9 of 22 in 2023. Last month, FJP removed the staff listing from its website.
Christopher Gray, a spokesman for FJP, said he could not discuss the circumstances of employees’ dismissals because of concern about defamation law.
“Any personnel actions taken by the organization are in full compliance with applicable laws, our anti-harassment policies, and reflect our core values,” Gray said in an email.
FJP is not officially incorporated with the Internal Revenue Service, but is instead “fiscally sponsored” by the Tides Foundation, a left-wing money clearinghouse. This arrangement means FJP does not have to disclose financial information, nor maintain a board of directors with power over Krinsky.
“Miriam’s leadership is characterized by a deep-seated culture of secrecy. She withholds critical information from even her top staff, including undisclosed financial details, such as her actual salary,” the employees said. “She has meticulously crafted an organizational structure that consolidates her power, eliminating any meaningful oversight.”
Tides spokeswoman Liah Caravalho said, “There is no validity to the assertion that Tides has issued legal threats in response to a whistleblower or other legitimate complaint.” She declined to say what actions Tides has taken to review employees’ concerns, or what, if any, structure exists for the group to replace problematic CEOs under its fiscal sponsorship model.
In April, after Krinsky told Boston she had been placed on the waiting list for an event that month in New York City, Boston replied raising “great concern” about Krinsky’s leadership.
“I am incredibly disturbed at the diversity that has exited the room,” she said, adding that FJP “has failed miserably in that regard.”
“To watch ‘us’ [black members] be placed to 2nd tier status begs a lot of questions.”
Boston’s missive caused a significant stir among FJP staff, many of whom were copied on the email. On April 22, Krinsky wrote to the staff saying that Boston was not excluded because she’s black, but because she was unqualified.
“The DA expressed upset at not being invited to all FJP convenings and also expressed the view that diversity is declining in the FJP network as a result, in part, of these decisions,” she wrote. “The concern that FJP decisions around whom to include at our convenings are based in any part on excluding people based on race or gender is deeply troubling and of great concern to all of us, and also categorically untrue.”
Krinsky suggested that Boston was not invited because she was not “abiding by our key values of ending mass incarceration and promoting racial justice.”
“Policy and prosecution choices and decisions made by the DA here raised serious concerns about a commitment to our values and reform,” she wrote. “As a result, following research and due deliberation, FJP stepped back from some of our engagement with the DA.”
“We know this has been an upsetting situation for many of you,” she wrote, saying that even though she did not believe Boston’s charge of racism, “we recognize that there is more that we can do to support equity and racial justice,” and that she would hold “office hours” for employees to air grievances.
Boston did not return a request for comment.
An August investigation from the Media Research Center found Krinsky held sway over law enforcement officials with jurisdiction over more than 3 in 10 Americans. The report found that Soros uses FJP to maintain contact with the left-wing prosecutors he helps get elected with massive donations. FJP often writes public statements and op-eds in elected officials’s names, and summons them to “mandatory” training sessions.
According to the Media Research Center, FJP pushed the idea that statistically-disproportionate racial outcomes are sufficient to prove racism. The group pressed its DAs to “reduc[e] racial disparities in case outcomes by at least 20%” — and to not use police for health calls.
Indeed, it views any interaction between police and minorities as a potential death sentence. FJP celebrated when New York Gov. Anthony Cuomo let San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin’s father, a left-wing terrorist convicted of killing two police officers, out of prison early, and sent out emails praising its DAs when they indicted police officers. The Media Research Center report also showed retaliation by Soros’ money machine against left-wing district attorneys who, once in office, moderated their positions to deal with rising crime.
The FJP staff’s experience corresponds with what conservatives have long said about the Soros judicial philosophy: that it pushes lax policies against traditional crime but draconian enforcement against critics and political opponents. A typical weekly update from Krinsky to her stable of prosecutors, dated April 19, 2022, lauds Ingraham County Prosecuting Attorney Carol Siemon for “charging fewer drug-inducted homicide cases.”
On the next page, meanwhile, Krinsky commends Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine for “expanding its lawsuit against the January 6th insurrectionists” — none of whom have been charged with insurrection — noting that the goal is “to bring about additional accountability beyond existing criminal actions by DOJ, including targeting the finances of groups.”
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