Today the Justice Department notified the Fairfax County Virginia Commonwealth attorney Steve Descano of the initiation of a federal investigation into the commonwealth attorney's plea bargaining, charging decisions and sentencing policy. The Justice Department civil rights division will investigate whether the office of the Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney discriminated against United States citizens by offering preferential treatment only to illegal alien criminal defendants. Now stop for a second. How is this possible? What kind of prosecutor says given every criminal defendant in front of us, let's discriminate against US Citizens and let's favor illegal aliens? (06:00–06:23)
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Asserts that the DOJ is investigating if the Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney's office discriminated against U.S. citizens in favor of illegal aliens.
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