Soros Prosecutor Twice Sprung Criminal Who Went On To Kill A Man

Latest instance where Steve Descano's bail policies freed a would-be murderer

In May, Kevin Alexander Lemus was released from jail for the second time in a month, thanks to one of Virginia's top progressive prosecutors. Four months later, he killed a man.

Lemus confessed to second-degree murder for the shooting of Darlin Ariel Diaz Flores, Fairfax County police announced on Wednesday. Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney Steve Descano (D.) released Lemus without bail in April on gun and drug charges. In May, Descano released Lemus again after he was charged for drug possession and having violated his pretrial release. Lemus killed Flores four months later.

The case is the latest instance in which progressive bail reform has allowed repeat offenders to commit murder. Descano’s office has released or dropped charges on four offenders this year who have gone on to kill. In June, Descano released a violent repeat offender on probation who later beat an elderly homeless woman to death.

The left-wing billionaire George Soros donated over half-a-million dollars to Descano's campaign as part of a nationwide push to elect progressive prosecutors. Many Soros-backed prosecutors have since eliminated bail and released offenders before trial in an effort to reduce incarceration.

Maj. Ed O’Carroll said Lemus was "no stranger" to police in Fairfax County, having more than 80 interactions with officers in the past.


"We are all safer with Lemus behind bars," O’Carroll said. "He chose to have a gun—not his first time. He chose to shoot a man and ultimately take a life Saturday night in Fairfax County. Now he will face his consequences for his actions."

Descano’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Homicides in Fairfax County rose 40 percent after Descano’s first year in office. They are set to outpace their 2021 levels, with at least 12 recorded so far this year.

But Descano shows no signs of changing course. In September, the prosecutor’s office dropped the majority of charges against a repeat offender who...

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House Passes Liz Cheney’s Trojan Horse Elections Bill Enabling Democrat Takeover Of The Ballot Box

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and re-write election rules to benefit Democrats in presidential contests.

The bill, proposed by GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California who is under Cheney on the Jan. 6 Committee, reforms the 135-year-old law to narrow the grounds for objections to presidential electors and open the door to late-day voting.

Cheney’s “Presidential Election Reform Act” became the Democrats’ answer to their failed effort to override state election laws in H.R. 1, which Senate Republicans blocked last summer. The legislation carries some of the same provisions of the doomed election bill at the top of Democrats’ congressional agenda. Just nine Republicans supported the bill, all but one of whom supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and are either retiring or have lost their primaries.

New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who co-chairs the Election Integrity Caucus, condemned the bill as “the latest attempt from House Democrats to stack the democratic process in their favor” and complained that the proposal did not go through the proper legislative process. The text was only released days before the Wednesday vote and received no bipartisan hearing or markup in committee.

“It is nothing more than a partisan messaging bill intended to score cheap political points weeks before an election,” Tenney said in a press release outlining the legislation’s flaws.

“The bill broadly defines a ‘catastrophic event,’ which could be used to extend balloting for up to five days after the polls close in a presidential election,” Tenney said. “It also tramples on the core principle of state sovereignty and directly contradicts the United States Constitution. The legislation also creates broad private rights of action in a backdoor to empower Democrat election lawyers and...

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The tale of the doctor with the broken heart

Expect to see a lot more sad, puzzled stories like this in the months to come

Dr. Kimberly Becher seems like a very good human being.

I’m not being sarcastic.

Dr. Becher is a family medicine physician in West Virginia who spent the best part of a decade caring for underserved and poor patients in a county that didn’t have a single stoplight, much less a hospital.

She grew up not far from that county, became the high school valedictorian, got out and came back. Okay, fine, her Twitter feed is somewhat annoyingly woke, but she comes by it honestly.

I know all this about Dr. Becher (except the part about her Twitter) because the New York Times saw fit to write a long profile of her today, entitled “A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke.”

The article explains how in April 2021, Dr. Becher “suddenly felt as if she were having a heart attack. She left for the emergency room, barely able to see, her blood pressure dangerously high.”

Her tweet from April 24, 2021 offers more details: “250/125 with runs of vtach [ventricular tachycardia], troponins trending up, cath [cardiac catherization], ICU.” No wonder she wound up in intensive care - that blood pressure reading is an immediate cardiovascular emergency all by itself.

Fortunately, Dr. Becher was only 41 at the time of the crisis, and she was in good shape - she had been training for a marathon. She recovered fully, although she has given up on distance running.

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But what caused Dr. Becher’s heart problems?

She was given a diagnosis of “Takotsubo’s cardiomyopathy,” sometimes called “broken heart disease.” Essentially, Takotsubo’s is a temporary weakening of the heart’s left ventricle, usually said to be caused by extreme stress. One paper describes it as “mimicking” a heart attack “but with only minimal release of cardiac enzymes.”

While Takotsubo’s can affect anyone, it most often develops in elderly women, often after they have suffered a severe emotional crisis such as the loss of a spouse. As Dr. Becher told the Times:

Takotsubo’s is typically caused by severe acute stress, something traumatic and abrupt. Mine was just from going to work every day and seemed super lame to me in the moment.

After all, Dr. Becher had been caring for underserved patients for years. She and the article both blame fights over Covid vaccinations - an interesting theory given that West Virginia had such HIGH vaccination rates in early 2021 the Centers for Disease Control actually lauded it.

Another crucial element of a Takotsubo’s diagnosis is that it is what physicians call a diagnosis of exclusion. Essentially, diagnoses of exclusion are given to patients as a last resort, when more conventional diagnoses do not fit. There is nothing wrong with them, but they are inherently somewhat unsatisfying - more prone to error than diagnoses that have stronger laboratory biomarkers.

As Becher described her illness on April 24: “Current diagnosis=takotsubo, literally from the #moralinjury of my job… I definitely had a moment of embarrassment at the diagnosis.”

So was there anything else that could have caused Dr. Becher’s sudden cardiac event - any new factor known to cause heart problems, especially in younger adults in good health?

Perhaps. And yet it goes not merely dismissed but completely unmentioned in the Times’s piece about her.

You’ve probably guessed by now what it might be.