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Trump Pardons Former Reality TV Couple Convicted of Bank Fraud and Tax Evasion

HeadlineMay 28, 2025

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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