Soros-linked pros­e­cu­tor faces pri­ma­ry chal­lenge as fel­low Demo­c­rat tar­gets his record

Soros-linked prosecutor faces primary challenge as fellow Democrat targets his record

Fair­fax Coun­ty Commonwealth’s Attor­ney Stephen Des­cano is fac­ing a force­ful rebuke from a for­mer fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor who exten­sive­ly crit­i­cized his record after announc­ing her bid to unseat him.Descano, a Demo­c­rat, has faced crit­i­cism over what oppo­nents describe as lenient pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al deci­sions, par­tic­u­lar­ly in seri­ous cas­es involv­ing ille­gal immi­grant sus­pects. For­mer fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor Brit­tany Dunn-Pirio said that if there weren’t sys­temic prob­lems in his office, she would want to work there.“If this office were doing its job, I wouldn’t be run­ning against it. I’d be apply­ing to work for it. But it isn’t,” Dunn-Pirio said on her new cam­paign web­site after Wash­ing­ton, D.C.-area media report­ed her …