Our nation’s third oldest, continuously-published daily newspaper, the winner of twenty Pultizer Prizes and the newspaper of record for the entire metropolitan area, has been doing what it can do defend the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, but things have been falling apart for Mr Krasner so badly that even the Inky has to report on what has been happening.

One of DA Larry Krasner’s top advisers once sent $100 to a man in prison for murder who’s now appealing his conviction. It’s under investigation.

G. Lamar Stewart said he supported Anthony Sutton’s prison mentorship program with his own money in 2021. Krasner defended the donation but ordered a review.

by Ellie Rushing | Tuesday, July 21, 2026 | 7:38 PM EDT | Updated: 8:08 PM EDT

The District Attorney’s Office is investigating ties between one of Larry Krasner’s top advisers and a man serving life in prison after prosecutors learned that the official sent the man money years ago and didn’t disclose it.

G. Lamar Stewart, chief of external engagement and government affairs in the DA’s office, said he sent $100 to Anthony Sutton in January 2021 to support Sutton’s mentorship program, “Mann Up,” for men incarcerated at State Correctional Institute Phoenix.

Sutton, 61, who is serving life in prison for killing a man in Germantown in 1984, has been appealing his conviction for more than a decade.

The issue came to light last week, after the prosecutors assigned to Sutton’s appeal were reviewing his prison records and noticed that Stewart was among those who had sent Sutton money in recent years.

According to the article, the District Attorney’s Office opposes Mr Sutton’s appeal, but that rings a bit hollow in the light of other things:

Sutton did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent through a messaging app for people in prison. His attorney, Jason Javie, said Tuesday that he didn’t know anything about Stewart’s payment to Sutton and declined to discuss the matter further.

“My focus is 110% on the exoneration of Mr. Sutton,” he said.

The revelation comes amid mounting scrutiny over Krasner’s office’s handling of post-conviction matters. In a forceful ruling last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Krasner’s office had a pattern of misleading judges when seeking to overturn old murder convictions.

Last week, in a separate, controversial federal appellate case, a former assistant district attorney in Krasner’s office said prosecutors were “colluding” with defense attorneys to find the most effective way to have the murder conviction thrown out. And then, on Monday, in a striking court filing in that same contentious case, two supervisors in the law division said Krasner had instructed them to litigate the matter in a way that would “protect the office.”

Mr Sutton was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1984, well before Mr Krasner’s tenure, so he did not get a sweetheart plea deal.

In Stewart’s case, his money went to support a program run by Sutton, better known as Benny Doo, who was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Richard Berry in the Pelham section of Germantown in December 1984. In the early 1980s, prosecutors said, Berry hired Sutton and other members of his crew, called the “Ghostbusters,” to retrieve jewelry that had been stolen from him, and agreed to pay with “a few ounces of blow and a couple thousand dollars.”

Berry never paid up, and after he started avoiding Sutton and his crew, Sutton killed him, prosecutors said.

So, it was a public service homicide! Mr Sutton killed another criminal, and then Mr Sutton wound up taken off the streets himself, for 42 years now, with his capture and conviction. It’s difficult to be too terribly upset by that.

Let me be clear about this: we cannot trust Mr Krasner or his office or a single word they say. To paraphrase what Mary McCarthy once said about Lillian Hellman, “Every word (they write or say) is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

The best source for the chaos that is the Philadelphia prosecutor’s office is Ralph Cipriano’s Big Trial blog, Sadly, much of his work is behind a paywall, but he has set some of his substack articles to be free.