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May 28, 2025

Trump Pardons Former Reality TV Couple Convicted of Bank Fraud and Tax Evasion
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President Trump has pardoned Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff
convicted on corruption charges after undercover video showed he
accepted over $75,000 in bribes. Jenkins is a longtime Trump supporter.
On social media, Trump said Jenkins was the "victim of an overzealous
Biden Department of Justice." Meanwhile, Trump has fully pardoned the
former reality show couple Todd and Julie Chrisley after they were
sentenced to long prison terms for evading taxes and defrauding banks of
more than $30 million.

This comes as Trump loyalist Ed Martin has taken on a new role as the
Justice Department's pardon attorney, after failing to win Senate
approval to become the District of Columbia's top prosecutor. Politico
reports Martin spent his first week on the job reviewing pardon
applications of January 6 insurrectionists, including Oath Keepers
founder Stewart Rhodes, seeking to have President Trump convert their
commuted sentences into full pardons.


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