California Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigns for President Joe Biden July 4, 2024 at a county Democratic Party event in South Haven, Mich. (Chris duMond/Shutterstock)
"California’s creative concoction of good time, education and other credits has resulted in criminals being released quicker than ever before, fulfilling Gov. Newsom’s plot to empty California’s prisons and put dangerous and violent felons back on the street," Spitzer added.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was driving drunk and high and speeding at nearly 100 mph on the 405 freeway in Orange County in November 2021, when he crashed into a car carrying 19-year-old Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin. Both were killed and burned alive. In the spring of 2022, he was convicted of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
The victims' families were notified Easter Sunday that Ortega-Anguiano would be released early on July 19, over six years before his 10-year sentence is up.
Anya Varfolomeeva and Nicholay Osokin were killed in an Orange County, Calif., car crash in 2021. (Courtesy of the Varfolomeev and Osokin families)
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On Thursday morning, Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, told "America's Newsroom" why the DOJ is pursuing federal prosecution.
"This is what happens when you have an open border policy like we did in the prior administration. But those days are over. Under this administration, our borders are closed," Essayli said.
"I've made it a top priority in my office, and I know throughout the United States, to enforce our immigration laws. So this defendant, he's not gonna get free. He's not going to be deported. He's coming to my jurisdiction, and we're gonna prosecute him. And once he's convicted, he's gonna spend many years in federal prison, and then he'll be deported again."
Cameron Arcand is a politics writer at Fox News Digital in Washington D.C. Story tips can be sent to Cameron.Arcand@Fox.com and on Twitter: @cameron_arcand
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