The Justice Department has quietly put the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations squarely in its sights, ordering U.S. attorney’s offices around the country to prepare investigative plans into the group’s activities. The move, first reported Sept. 25, 2025, marks a long-overdue daylighting of a shadowy network that has spent decades trying to reshape America from behind the scenes.
According to reporting based on a directive circulated from the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a lawyer named Aakash Singh asked prosecutors in multiple districts to consider a slate of serious charges — from racketeering to material support for terrorism, arson and wire fraud. Those are not casual suggestions; they are the kinds of legal tools that can dismantle illicit networks and hold enablers accountable.
What prompted the DOJ’s interest was a bombshell conservative investigation that lays out how Open Society allegedly routed tens of millions of dollars to groups tied to violent or extremist activity. The Capital Research Center’s report, authored by investigator Ryan Mauro, documents more than $80 million in grants and highlights roughly $23 million aimed at U.S. outfits that the CRC says met FBI definitions of domestic terrorism. Conservatives who have warned about dark money and institutional capture finally have hard leads to pursue.
On conservative media, Glenn Beck and others have been all over this, hosting Mauro and spotlighting the “smoking gun” grant trails that for years were hidden behind glossy annual reports and tax filings. The Blaze and allied outlets have pushed the narrative that this is not philanthropy but political warfare financed by oligarchic money — and those revelations helped force the Justice Department to act. The public deserves to know whether tax-exempt status was being used as a cloak for lawlessness.
Unsurprisingly, the Open Society Foundations pushed back, calling the probe politically motivated and insisting their work supports lawful human-rights efforts worldwide. That defense is predictable and convenient; when you run the kind of sprawling grant operation OSF does, you are responsible for where your money goes and for the downstream consequences of your grants. The American people should not be gaslit into accepting opaque billionaires funding chaos.
If the evidence holds up, the Justice Department has powerful options: RICO, material-support statutes, wire-fraud and tax-enforcement tools, plus civil actions that can strip the privileges that let these organizations hide behind nonprofits. Conservative investigators and U.S. attorneys now have a path to choke the financial arteries of groups that traffic in violence and intimidation — and that’s precisely what a country that values law and order should demand.
This moment is bigger than one billionaire or one foundation; it’s a test of whether American institutions will defend citizens against well-funded campaigns to destabilize our communities. Patriots who value safety, free speech and the rule of law should cheer a Justice Department willing to follow the money and hold powerful actors to account. The hard work of restoring civic order and common sense funding transparency starts now.
