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VA Sheriff Indicted For Accepting Bribes From 5 Men Including Undercover FBI Agents: Feds VA Sheriff Indicted For Accepting Bribes From 5 Men Including Undercover FBI Agents: Feds
VA Sheriff Indicted For Accepting Bribes From 5 Men Including Undercover FBI Agents: Feds Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins is facing federal charges unsealed in an indictment Thursday, June 29. Jenkins is accused of accepting cash bribes and campaign contributions totaling more than $72,500 in exchange for police credentials that would allow for buyers to carry concealed guns without permits nationwide, federal prosecutors announced. The 51-year-old sheriff acted alongside three other Virginia men since April 2019 in the conspiracy to exchange bribes for law enforcement badges and credentials, federal programs bribery, and honest services fraud, the indictmen…

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