The American branch of George Soros’s mega-foundation is getting new leadership with ties both to the Obama administration and to a prominent discredited Democrat, New Jersey former Gov. Jon Corzine.

Lawyer Kenneth H. Zimmerman is the new director of US programs to “direct a grantmaking body that over the past several years has given more than $100 million annually,” according to an Open Society Foundation press release. He is a left-wing activist and one publication called him “Mr. Social Justice.”

Zimmerman served as chief counsel for liberal Democrat Corzine and also worked as “part of the presidential transition team preparing the Obama Administration's strategy for the Department of Housing & Urban Development.”

His background includes serving “as deputy assistant secretary for the US Department of Housing & Urban Development during the Clinton Administration, and as a senior trial attorney in the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division,” according to US States News in 2008. He is also listed as a “Nonresident Senior Fellow” for the liberal Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program.

Zimmerman takes over an American operation that has helped fund the infrastructure for much of the American left – donating $550 million to liberal public policy groups, and more than $52 million to left-wing media operations. Soros has given his foundations more than $8.5 billion over the years.

While Soros has protested that he stays out of politics, he recently committed $2 million to help re-elect Barack Obama. Yet, in the 2011 book, “The Philanthropy of George Soros,” he explained how problems in the nation of Georgia had made him stay out of politics. “This painful lesson taught me to keep a greater distance from the internal politics of the countries where I have foundations.”

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