Donald announced his latest pardon on Truth Social, a MAGA Sheriff who accepted more than $75,000 in bribes. As usual, Trump blamed Biden’s Department of Justice, even though former Sheriff Scott Jenkins of Culpeper County, Virginia, took the bribes in exchange for appointing numerous Northern Virginia businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs within his department.
A jury of his peers found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after he was convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and bribery last December.
Then-acting U.S. Zachary Lee said when Jenkins was sentenced in March that “he engaged in a cash-for-badges scheme.” The bribes were in exchange for deputy badges for wealthy local businessmen, who would use their status to get out of traffic tickets or carry concealed firearms, MSNBC reports.
Jenkins, a Trump supporter, is a real piece of work. He also pressured local officials to approve a petition filed in Culpeper County Circuit Court by a convicted felon to restore his right to possess a firearm.
Birds of a feather:
