President Donald Trump forgave a Sheriff in Virginia who 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.
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.
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 faith that the citizens of Culpeper County placed in him when he dedicated himself to a cash scheme for Badges,” said US prosecutor Zachary T. Lee 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.
