Ousted Soros-backed prosecutor rakes in $210,000 at UC Berkeley
Jeremiah Poff
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Former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin is earning $210,000 a year to run a legal clinic at the University of California, Berkeley.
Boudin, who was one of many liberal prosecutors across the country who received support from billionaire megadonor George Soros, was recalled from office last year amid an increase in crime in San Francisco that was partly blamed on his office’s decision to avoid prosecuting certain crimes and seek lighter sentences that did not involve jail time.
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In May, Boudin took a job as the executive director of a new center for criminal law and justice at UC Berkeley’s law school. In a statement at the time of his appointment, the ousted San Francisco prosecutor said he was looking forward to working with the school’s scholars.
“A lifetime of visiting my biological parents in prison and my work as a public defender and district attorney have made clear that our system fails to keep communities safe and fails to treat them equitably,” he said at the time. “I’m thrilled to join the nation’s premier public law school and engage with brilliant scholars and students to drive meaningful change by elevating the lived experience of those directly impacted.”
Boudin’s parents, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, were convicted of murder in the 1980s for participating in the 1981 Brink’s robbery that left two New York police officers dead. They were also members of the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist organization that bombed several federal buildings, including the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon.
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UC Berkeley law school is paying Chesa Boudin $210,000 to run the Criminal Justice Center, according to documents obtained by the College Fix. A spokesperson for the university confirmed the figure to the Washington Examiner but declined to provide additional comment. Boudin earned a salary of $309,000 as district attorney of San Francisco.
UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky told the news outlet that Boudin was hired after a nationwide search and that he hopes the former San Francisco DA will “create a first-class center to research issues regarding the criminal justice system.”