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Leftist billionaire George Soros and members of his family have donated more than $71,000 to political campaigns supporting New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James since 2019, according to a report published Sunday by the New York Post.
The report, citing campaign finance records, said the total includes $31,000 contributed toward James’ 2026 reelection bid. Soros personally donated $18,000 in July 2024, while his daughter-in-law, Jennifer Soros, contributed $13,000 in May.
With earlier donations included, Soros and his family have provided James with roughly $40,000 more since 2019, the Post reported.
The figure does not include the indirect support James has received through left-leaning organizations backed by Soros. The report said Soros’ Open Society Foundations have given more than $865,000 to the New York branch of the Working Families Party since 2018.
James first gained prominence in 2003 as the first Working Families Party candidate elected in New York, winning a City Council seat in Brooklyn. Although she ran as a Democrat during her successful 2018 campaign for attorney general alongside then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she later accepted the party’s endorsement again during her 2022 reelection bid, according to the Post.
“George Soros has spent years financing the radical left’s most extreme projects, and the outcome is almost always the same: instability and disorder that is destroying our state,” Michael Henry, a Republican challenger running against James in 2026, told the Post.
As attorney general, James pursued civil fraud cases against President Donald Trump, focusing on his business valuations and finances. Critics have described the actions as politically motivated, arguing they relied on novel legal theories and resulted in penalties intended to damage Trump’s business and presidential campaign.
In August, President Trump won a legal victory when a New York appellate court overturned more than $500 million in fines imposed earlier in the case.
James has also faced scrutiny of her own. In October, the Justice Department brought mortgage fraud charges related to a property she owns in Virginia. The case was later dismissed after a judge ruled the federal prosecutor involved was unlawfully appointed.
