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ABC News reports:
President Donald Trump on Monday granted an unconditional pardon to a Virginia sheriff who had been convicted of federal bribery charges and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Scott Jenkins, who had been the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, was set to report to jail on Tuesday.
Jenkins faced a jury trial in late 2024 but wasn’t sentenced until March 2025 under the Trump administration. Acting U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Lee, who represented the U.S. government, and therefore the Trump administration, in the case, is still serving as the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
The Department of Justice had said in a press release in March that he had received over $75,000 in cash payments for “appointing numerous Northern Virginia businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs within his department.” “Scott Jenkins violated his oath of office and the faith the citizens of Culpeper County placed in him when he engaged in a cash-for-badges scheme,” Lee said at the time.
From my October 2023 report:
A die-hard MAGA sheriff in Virginia charged with accepting bribes for deputy badges allegedly sold one to a controversial Iraqi fixer linked to Kurdistan prime minister and accused kleptocrat Masrour Barzani.
That’s according to an FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast, which reveals Virginia-based businessman Haval Dosky was swept up in a federal investigation that has upended the decade-plus tenure of Culpeper County, Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins.
Prosecutors say donors who gave generously to Jenkins’ 2019 reelection campaign were rewarded by being made reserve deputies—which also gave them permission to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 U.S. states.
This is Ed Martin’s doing. 
Donald Trump just announced a pardon for Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking over $70,000 in bribes to appoint local businessmen as auxiliary deputies.
Drain the swamp!
— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) May 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
President Donald Trump announced he is granting a “full and unconditional pardon” to a former Virginia sheriff, Scott Jenkins, who was convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud and bribery.
— CNN (@cnn.com) May 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
MAGA Sheriff Charged With Selling Deputy Badges https://t.co/32ufkwAm9k pic.twitter.com/ZiMZgjJ2I4
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) October 4, 2023