President Donald Trump gave a unconditional forgiveness to a Sheriff in Virginia on Monday that had been sentenced for federal bribery charges and sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison.
Scott Jenkins, who had been the Sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, was scheduled to inform the jail on Tuesday.
“Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia and his family have been dragged by a corrupt and armed DOJ,” Trump wrote in a statement about Truth Social. “In fact, during his judgment, when Sheriff Jenkins tried to offer exculpatory evidence to keep himself, Judge Biden, Robert Ballou, refused to allow it, close it and then it was a diatribe.”
Culpeper County, Virginia, the Sheriff Scott Jenkins speaks during a concentration of weapons organized by the Citizens Defense League of Virginia in Capitol Square, near the state capital building, on January 20, 2020, in Richmond, Va.
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“As we have seen, in federal, municipal and state courts, the radical judges of the left or liberals allow evidence how they feel, not what is required under the Constitution and the rules of evidence,” he added. “This Sheriff is the victim of a Biden justice department too jealous, and does not deserve to spend a single day in jail.”
Jenkins faced a jury trial at the end of 2024, but was not sentenced until March 2025 under the Trump administration. The acting American prosecutor, Zachary T. Lee, who represented the government of the United States and, therefore, the Trump administration, in the case, is still serving as the US Prosecutor. UU. For the West District of Virginia.
Trump praised Jenkins as “a wonderful person, who was pursued by the left -wing radicals’ Monsters’ and ‘left for dead.
Jenkins was sentenced by a jury in December 2024 for charges that include a conspiracy charge, four positions of honest services fraud and seven bribery charges on programs financed by the federal government.
Lee wrote in a March judgment memorandum that Jenkins repeated violated the public’s confidence “exploiting his official powers to obtain personal profits.”
“After they caught him, he tried to manipulate the judicial process and evade the responsibility of his crimes by lying before the court and the jury,” Lee added.
“In summary, Jenkins’ lies and power abuses are not an aberration,” he said. “Since its first days in the application of the law, Jenkins has shown a shocking contempt for his ethical and legal responsibilities.”
The Department of Justice had He said in a press release In March, he had received more than $ 75,000 in cash payments for “appointing numerous entrepreneurs in northern Virginia as sheriffs auxiliary attachments within his department.”
“Scott Jenkins violated his office and the faith that Culpeper County citizens placed in him when he dedicated himself to a cash scheme for Badges,” Lee said at that time.
“We take our officials responsible for enforcing the law at a higher level of conduct and this case shows that when those officials use their authority for unfair personal enrichment, the Department of Justice will hold them responsible,” he added.
