by Tim Carney
March 1, 2026
Murderers, rapists, perverts, and pimps. These are the folks served by Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano.
The George Soros-funded Commonwealth’s attorney for this suburban county of 1 million has openly stated he won’t enforce the law when it clashes with his ideology. The results have been ugly: […] Abdul Jalloh was arrested more than 30 times, including for malicious wounding, but was repeatedly set free. He is now accused of stabbing Stephanie Minter to death on February 23.
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Descano is in office because of left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Descano was first elected as Fairfax County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney in 2019 when he knocked off the incumbent Raymond Morrogh in the Democratic primary, winning by 1,500 votes in a low-turnout election.
Descano raised about $1 million between the primary and the general election, a shocking amount for a downballot county race. About two-thirds of his cash came from two Soros-funded organizations, the Justice and Public Safety PAC and the New Virginia Majority PAC.
Soros was the champion of “criminal justice reform” at the time, and Descano was one of his proteges.
In that 2019 primary, when the ACLU asked the candidates to refuse to enforce certain laws, Morrogh answered, “We are a nation of laws, not men. I’m not a super legislature. I can’t decide, and should not decide what laws to prosecute and what not to prosecute, nor should Steve.”
Descano sees it differently. He sees his position as an opportunity to single-handedly legalize things that state and local legislatures have banned.
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Descano also tried to single-handedly turn Fairfax County into something a sanctuary county: “Wherever possible,” Descano’s website declared until recent minor edits, “Steve will make charging and plea decisions that limit or avoid immigration consequences.”
This is a naked admission of discrimination. Descano’s stated policy is to prosecute a U.S. citizen more harshly for a given crime than he would prosecute an illegal immigrant.
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The week after Danehower was let off the hook, Abdul Jalloh allegedly stabbed Stephanie Minter to death at a bus stop.
Jalloh had 30 arrests on his record at the time, but every charge of a violent crime, Descano dropped, setting him free to kill.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) brands herself as a pragmatic moderate. Descano has no such pretensions.