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费尔法克斯县 Commonwealth 检察官因处理暴力犯罪案件的方式面临党内挑战
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨 福克斯新闻
发布于 2026年9月24日美国东部时间下午1:34
费尔法克斯县联邦检察官斯蒂芬·德斯卡诺正遭到一名前联邦检察官的强烈抨击，后者在宣布参选挑战他的连任资格后，对其政绩展开了全面批评。
作为民主党人的德斯卡诺一直因被对手描述为宽大的检察决策而饱受批评，尤其是在涉及非法移民嫌疑人的严重案件中。前联邦检察官布里塔尼·邓恩-皮里奥表示，如果他的办公室不存在系统性问题，她本想在那里工作。
“如果这个办公室在尽职尽责，我不会竞选反对它，而是会申请入职。但事实并非如此，”邓恩-皮里奥在华盛顿特区地区媒体周三晚报道她的参选消息后，在她新的竞选网站上说道。
弗吉尼亚州民主党人就司法部对索罗斯支持的地区检察官的调查产生分歧，该检察官被指控向非法移民提供“优惠协议”
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“我是民主党人。这场竞选无关改革是否正确，而是关乎办公室能否区分值得给予第二次机会的首次非暴力罪犯，与不值得宽大处理的暴力或性犯罪者，”邓恩-皮里奥在她的网站上说道。
“这关乎能否遵守截止日期、能否向被告提交证据，以及能否与受害者沟通。”
弗吉尼亚州民主党人为索罗斯支持的检察官辩护，反对司法部就针对非法移民的指控展开调查
福克斯新闻数字频道联系了德斯卡诺和邓恩-皮里奥以获取进一步置评。
德斯卡诺竞选团队的发言人内森·基克为现任议员的政绩进行了辩护，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“史蒂夫·德斯卡诺在任期内证明了，你可以在改革司法系统的同时，保障我们社区的安全。”
“如今，费尔法克斯县被评为全美最安全的大型县，这是因为史蒂夫专注于问责制和犯罪根源，而非过去那些失败的政策。我们很自豪能将这份政绩呈现在选民面前，”基克说道。
邓恩-皮里奥还指出了“处理失当的性侵案件”、检察官拒绝与受害者会面，以及她的论点：司法系统往往过度偏袒“关系户”。
一起受到德斯卡诺办公室审查的案件涉及阿卜杜勒·贾洛，这名来自塞拉利昂的非法移民被控谋杀斯蒂芬·明特。明特今年2月在海布拉谷公交站被刺身亡，此前贾洛因多次被捕已经在刑事司法系统中留下了案底。
德斯卡诺驳斥了有关他的办公室任由贾洛逍遥法外的说法，他告诉国会，他的检察官“尽一切可能”对贾洛定罪。
索罗斯支持的检察官宽松的非法移民政策导致了“本可避免”的公交站谋杀案：投诉
邓恩-皮里奥曾在弗吉尼亚州弗雷德里克县担任检察官，还曾在覆盖肯塔基州列克星敦的辖区担任联邦检察官。她表示，自己在2025年从司法部辞职，此前她一直在处理与新冠相关的欺诈及类似案件。
“我无法忍受维持这样一个体系：它为关系户提供赦免，却因相同行为起诉普通美国人，”她在FairfaxNow获得的一份声明中说道。
她还表示，德斯卡诺的办公室花了太多时间“辜负了我所关心的民众”。
她新的竞选网站上的轮播图重点展示了那些引发公众对德斯卡诺审查的案件，包括：
多次犯罪、身负数十项前科的男子因在索罗斯支持的检察官所在县闯入教堂被捕
“我们需要一位能让这个办公室正常运转的联邦检察官，”邓恩-皮里奥说道。“费尔法克斯的每一位居民都应该感到安全，每一位居民都应该能够信任这个本应保护他们的办公室。”
德斯卡诺的竞选团队没有立即回应就邓恩-皮里奥的批评提出的额外置评请求。
邓恩-皮里奥最近在民事诉讼律师事务所哈曼·克莱托尔·科里根&韦尔曼担任合伙人，此前曾在肯塔基州担任两年助理美国检察官，并于2025年11月辞职。根据她的领英个人资料，她在司法部期间专门处理新冠救济欺诈和公共腐败案件。
“最近我是一名联邦检察官，我从司法部辞职是因为我无法忍受维持这样一个体系：它为关系户提供赦免，却因相同行为起诉普通美国人，”邓恩-皮里奥说道。
在2023年成为联邦检察官之前，邓恩-皮里奥曾在弗雷德里克县担任助理联邦检察官、州刑事上诉法院助理总检察长，以及费尔法克斯县巡回法院法官兰迪·贝洛斯的法律书记员。
邓恩-皮里奥强调自己是“土生土长的民主党人”，将自己的参选与右翼对德斯卡诺的挑战区分开来。
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她表示，自己9岁时就为前副总统阿尔·戈尔做志愿者，曾在圣母大学领导大学民主党俱乐部，至今仍活跃在当地民主党团体中，此前还曾为弗吉尼亚州议员马库斯·西蒙（D-福尔斯彻奇）的竞选活动担任经理。
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费尔法克斯县监事会中共和党仅占一席，其余席位均由民主党占据。邓恩-皮里奥对德斯卡诺的挑战将首先在2027年选举前的民主党提名竞选中决出胜负。
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Soros-linked prosecutor faces primary challenge as fellow Democrat targets his record
2026-09-24T13:34:23-04:00 / Fox News
The Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney faces a challenge from within his party over handling of violent crime cases
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published September 24, 2026 1:34pm EDT
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 bid late Wednesday.
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“I’m a Democrat. This race isn’t about whether reform was right. It’s about whether the office can tell the difference between a first-time nonviolent offender who deserves a second chance and a violent or sexual offender who doesn’t,” Dunn-Pirio said on her website.
“It’s about whether deadlines are met, evidence is given to the defendant and victims are spoken to.”
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Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, left, and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid, right, testify before Congress.(Tom Williams/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Descano and Dunn-Pirio for further comment.
Descano campaign spokesman Nathan Kiker defended the incumbent’s record, telling Fox News Digital that “Steve Descano has spent his tenure proving that you can reform the justice system and keep our community safe at the same time.”
“Today, Fairfax County is recognized as the safest large county in the nation because Steve focused on accountability and the root causes of crime rather than failed policies of the past. We are proud to put that record before the voters,” Kiker said.
Dunn-Pirio also pointed to “botched sexual assault cases” and prosecutors declining to meet with victims, along with her contention that the justice system too often favors the “well-connected.”
One case that has drawn the scrutiny of Descano’s office involves Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone charged with murdering Stephanie Minter. Minter was stabbed and killed at a Hybla Valley bus stop in February after Jalloh had cycled through the criminal justice system following numerous previous arrests.
Descano has pushed back on claims that his office simply allowed Jalloh to walk free, telling Congress his prosecutors obtained convictions against him “wherever possible.”
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Nine of the illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes in Fairfax County in 2026, left to right from top: Juan Arevalo Mendez, Moises Domingo Rico Rosales, Cristian Wilfredo Alvarenga Aguilar, Walvin Victor Hugo Garcia, Roni Mendez-Escobar, Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz, Misael Lopez Gomez, Maldin Anibal Guzman-Videz, Luis Alonzo Sort-Portillo.(DHS)
Dunn-Pirio previously served as a prosecutor in Frederick County, Virginia, and as a federal prosecutor in the district covering Lexington, Kentucky. She said she resigned from the DOJ in 2025 after working on COVID-related fraud and similar cases.
“I couldn’t stomach propping up a system that gave pardons to the well-connected while prosecuting average Americans for the same conduct,” she said, according to a release obtained by FairfaxNow.
She also said Descano’s office has spent too much time “failing the people I care about.”
A carousel on her new campaign website highlights cases that have drawn public scrutiny of Descano, including:
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“We need a Commonwealth’s Attorney who can make this office work,” Dunn-Pirio said. “Every person in Fairfax should feel safe, and every person in Fairfax should be able to trust the office that’s supposed to protect them.”
Descano’s campaign did not immediately respond to an additional request for comment on Dunn-Pirio’s criticism.
Dunn-Pirio, most recently an associate at the civil litigation firm Harman, Claytor, Corrigan & Wellman, served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Kentucky for two years before resigning in November 2025. At the Justice Department, she specialized in COVID relief fraud and public corruption cases, according to her LinkedIn profile.
“Most recently I was a federal prosecutor, and I resigned from the Justice Department because I couldn’t stomach propping up a system that gave pardons to the well-connected while prosecuting average Americans for the same conduct,” Dunn-Pirio said.
Before becoming a federal prosecutor in 2023, Dunn-Pirio served as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Frederick County, an assistant attorney general in the state criminal appeals courts and a law clerk to Judge Randy Bellows in Fairfax County Circuit Court.
Dunn-Pirio emphasized that she is a “cradle Democrat,” distinguishing her candidacy from a challenge to Descano from the political right.
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She said she volunteered for former Vice President Al Gore at age 9, helped lead the College Democrats at the University of Notre Dame, remains active in local Democratic groups and previously managed a campaign for Virginia Del. Marcus Simon, D-Falls Church.
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Republicans hold only one seat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, while Democrats hold the remaining seats. Dunn-Pirio’s challenge to Descano will be decided first in the Democratic nomination contest ahead of the 2027 election.
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