George Soros is back in the game of funding local races for district attorney

Billionaire political activist George Soros appears to be getting back in the game of funding local races for district attorney, this time trying to hand-pick the winner in the Philadelphia contest.

In the 2016 campaign, Soros created local, independent expenditure committees or political action committees which allowed him to bypass the individual contribution limits on giving to a candidate's own committee. Soros was then able to spend unlimited amounts on mailers and television ads on behalf of the candidate, provided there was no coordination between the Soros-created PAC and the candidate.

In most of the 2016 contests, the Soros PAC or committee also unveiled itself very late in the game, often times catching the other candidates completely unaware at a point so late in the election cycle they were unable to counter-fundraise to ward off the mountains of money they faced.

Another strategy that paid dividends for Soros in 2016 was trying to overwhelm primary elections in which the Democrat winner was all but assured of being the general election victor as well, based on the constituency. For example, it was February of last year when "Illinois Safety and Justice" spent about $400,000 on candidate Kim Foxx. Once Foxx won her primary in March, Soros was basically free to fold up the effort there, knowing her election in Cook County was assured based on the heavy Democratic voter registration advantage there.

There is somewhat of a resembalance between Soros and Oskar Groening:

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"Oskar Groening as a young man in an SS uniform in an undated photo; right: Groening in the dock of the court in Lueneburg, northern Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2015."

"Groening, at Nuremburg, testified that:
Between May and July 1944, so many trains were arriving that often two would have to wait with closed doors as the first was "processed," Groening testified at the Lueneburg state court."

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"Oskar Gröning (sometimes transliterated as Oscar Groening in English; born 10 June 1921) is a German former SS junior squad leader who was stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property prisoners had arrived with. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass-killing in the camp. After being transferred from Auschwitz to a combat unit in October 1944, Gröning was captured by the British on 10 June 1945 when his unit surrendered. He was eventually transferred to Britain as a prisoner of war and worked as a forced labourer."

"In September 2014, Gröning was charged by German prosecutors as an accessory to murder, in 300,000 cases, for his role at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His trial began in April 2015, after the court had ruled that, at the age of 93, he was still fit to stand trial. The trial was held in Lüneburg, Germany. On 15 July 2015, he was found guilty of facilitating mass murder and sentenced to four years' imprisonment."

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