Oddly enough, I couldn’t find anything in The Philadelphia Inquirer on this story, despite paying $5.49 per week for my digital subscription. But not to worry, several other news organizations carried it:
After January 6th pardons, DA Larry Krasner looks to state charges
By Jason Fuller, Adam Raney, and Pien Huang | Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 7:32 PM EDT
District Attorney Larry Krasner is looking to file state charges against Pennsylvanians who were pardoned after participating in the January 6th riot. He explains his efforts to NPR’s Pien Huang.
Mr Krasner: And it is not just a Pennsylvania question, not just a Philly question. It’s a national question. This is not so much about whether or not there are identical charges over exactly what happened in D.C. on January 6. This is more about whether there is conduct that occurred within local jurisdictions before January 6 or after January 6 that is criminal conduct and that can be charged by those states.
And the reason it’s crucial is that the president of the United States has no power to pardon state court convictions, and many people, including many prosecutors, are concerned that there may be a level of unfairness, a gap of accountability, for people who participated in an event on January 6 that was clearly for the benefit of the person who is pardoning them and giving them clemency. There’s at least an argument that these people are co-conspirators with the person who is pardoning them or giving them clemency.
So for those of us who actually believe in the rule of law – we actually believe in the Constitution, we believe in laws – when we see this extreme favoritism that arguably enables political violence moving forward so long as it’s for the benefit of the person given the pardons, there has to be an answer.
Mr Krasner, who is a George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating prosecutor, thrice elected by an apparently criminal-loving population in the City of Brotherly Love, has consistently refused to prosecute to the full extent of the law, unless it’s against a city police officer, and has a long, long record of treating actual criminals leniently. That he claims to be someone who “believes(s) in the rule of law” is absolutely ridiculous.
One of the people who Mr Krasner didn’t have in in jail on Friday, March 13, 2020, when he could have, was Hassan Elliot, 21. How did the District Attorney’s office treat Mr Elliot, a known gang-banger?
- Mr Elliott, then 18 years old, was arrested in June 2017 on gun- and drug-possession charges stemming after threatening a neighbor with a firearm. The District Attorney’s office granted him a plea bargain arrangement on January 24, 2018, and he was sentenced to 9 to 23 months in jail, followed by three years’ probation. However, he was paroled earlier than that, after seven months in jail.
- Mr Elliot soon violated parole by failing drug tests and failing to attend his meetings with his parole officer.
- Mr Elliott was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine on January 29, 2019. This was another parole violation, but Mr Krasner’s office did not attempt to have Mr Elliot returned to jail to finish his sentence, nor make any attempts to get serious bail on the new charges; instead he was released on his own recognizance.
- After Mr Elliot failed to appear for his scheduled drug-possession trial on March 27, 2019, and prosecutors dropped those charges against him.
On that Friday the 13th, Police Corporal James O’Connor IV, 46, was part of a Philadelphia police SWAT team trying to serve a predawn arrest warrant on Mr Elliott, from a March 2019 killing. Mr Elliot greeted the SWAT team with a hail of bullets, and Corporal O’Connor was killed. Had Mr Elliot been in jail, as he could have been due to parole violations, had Mr Krasner’s office treated him seriously, Corporal O’Connor would have gone home safely to his wife that day. The Inquirer reported:
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 president John McNesby also has criticized Krasner, saying his policies led to the killing of O’Connor. “Unfortunately, he’s murdered by somebody that should have never been on the street,” McNesby said.
McNesby also said FOP members and police officers formed a human barricade to block Krasner from entering the hospital Friday to see O’Connor’s family.
We have nearly a hundred articles with the hashtag #LarryKrasner on my site, and there were probably some missed which should have been so tagged as well. Mr Krasner, in his zeal to do anything he can to attack President Donald Trump and those who supported him, wanted to throw as many as he could back into jail after the pardons of the Capitol kerfufflers on January 20th, despite the fact that the majority had already served their federal sentences and been released prior to the pardons. They got their records cleared, and some probationary periods ended, but they can’t get their time back.
And now we come to this gem from the Philly persecutor. That’s right: Mr Krasner wants to go after anyone who might have been involved with the late Jeffrey Epstein. But, let’s tell the truth here: if Mr Krasner found anyone connected to Mr Epstein who has “ties back to (his) jurisdiction,” which is the confines of Philadelphia County — Philadelphia city and county are co-terminus — Mr Krasner wants to throw the book at them, but only if they are Republicans.
Bruce L. Castor Jr., a former Montgomery County District Attorney, noted the silliness of Mr Krasner’s publicity stunt concerning the Capitol kerfufflers:
People who were convicted will claim he is engaging in bad faith, implicating double jeopardy protections, for example. There will be statute of limitations problems, too, as most misdemeanors in Pennsylvania have a two-year statute, and the conduct was four years ago. I would say there is zero chance Pennsylvania’s appellate courts would ultimately allow such cases to proceed.
Mr Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019, and committed suicide in jail on August 10, 2019. That’s just a month short of six years ago, and as repugnant as Mr Epstein’s operation was, it was an operation which ended six years ago, so statutes of limitation once again become a problem. Mr Epstein did not live in Philly, nor was his infamous Little St James Island in the Delaware River, within Philly’s borders. More, we already know that, if two such potential defendants were found that Mr Krasner could prosecute, one a Democrat and one a Republican, he’d go after the Republican and ignore the Democrat.
Unless, of course, the Democrat was a police officer!
Mr Krasner would, of course, love most of all to prosecute President Trump, but we already know that, if there was any evidence that Mr Trump committed any crimes connected to Mr Epstein, that information would have been released by the Justice Department while Merrick Garland, who hates Republicans with a white-hot passion due to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) denying him a Supreme Court seat, was Attorney General and Joe Biden was President, to try to sabotage Mr Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
The Trump Administration has truly fumbled the ball on the Epstein files, and the recent claim that there are no such files, even after the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell in late December of 2021. Miss Maxwell, who had just turned 60 when she was convicted, was sentenced to twenty years, which is practically a life sentence at her age. But the Biden Administration also had three years to release Miss Maxwell’s purported ‘client list’ and other files, and did not, when there actually was time before statute of limitations problems to pursue any sex offenders in whatever records there were; that such did not happen is evidence in itself that there were no political enemies of the Democrats who could be charged. There are hundreds of pictures of prominent people, including Bill Clinton — Miss Maxwell was a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding — and Mr Trump, hobnobbing with Mr Epstein, but those photos do not constitute legal evidence that they committed any crimes.
If there were going to be any charges brought against anyone for sexual abuse on Mr Epstein’s property, those charges would have had to have been brought by the federal government during President Biden’s miserable four years in office, and none were. Mr Krasner knows this, and his tweet was just another beclowning of himself.
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