When Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March, the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia said he "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.

Juries convicted Scott Jenkins of bribery and Paul Walczak of tax crimes. Trump claims they’re merely fellow victims of the “weaponized Biden DOJ.”

Former Culpeper County, Virginia, sheriff Scott Jenkins was expected in federal prison on Tuesday but will no longer head there, after a Memorial Day pardon by President Donald Trump. A jury convicted Jenkins in December in a yearslong bribes-for-badges scheme the News4 I-Team has covered extensively.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday his pardon of former Culpeper County, Virginia, sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was convicted of federal bribery and fraud charges in December. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Jenkins was a victim of the ‘Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day in jail.’

President Donald Trump is sending a clear message to law enforcement officers who break the law, conservative analyst Bill Kristol wrote for The Bulwark in an urgent analysis published on Tuesday — you can do whatever you like as long as you're loyal to me.

President Trump's latest pardons include a former Republican congressman, reality TV stars and a former Virginia sheriff. Scott MacFarlane has details.

President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction

President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that he will consider pardoning six men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 because of tough COIVD-19 restrictions in the state.