# Scott Jenkins **Scott Jenkins** is the former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, a Republican who was convicted of accepting **more than $75,000 in bribes** in exchange for appointing local businessmen as auxiliary sheriff's deputies — a badge-and-credential-for-cash scheme. He was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in 2024 and **pardoned by [[Donald Trump]] in May 2025** as part of the [[Trump 2025 Pardon Spree]]. Jenkins, a vocal Trump ally who had positioned himself as a "constitutional sheriff," was reframed in the pardon's messaging as a victim of an overzealous Biden-era Justice Department. CREW counted him among the corrupt politicians granted second-term clemency. ## Cross-references - Clemency event: [[Trump 2025 Pardon Spree]] - Mechanism: [[Pardons as Currency]] - Accountability frame: [[Elite Impunity]]