Mister Laser Tag Shot the Sheriff!

A couple posts back, I discussed the Trump Administration attempting to befriend the law enforcement industry by setting up the tranny Damien Allen as not just a spree shooter “about to happen”, but one targeting the police and military specifically. I predicted that such efforts would continue, in keeping with an executive order he issued directing a whole-of-government badge-ass kissing. One of the reasons my blog is special, is because I circle back to check my math.

STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS

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28 April 2025

When local leaders demonize law enforcement and impose legal and political handcuffs that make aggressively enforcing the law impossible, crime thrives and innocent citizens and small business owners suffer. My Administration will therefore: establish best practices at the State and local level for cities to unleash high-impact local police forces…

Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.

“Best practices”, he says. “Before 28 July 2025”, doing the math on that 90 days. So, how is sucking up to the law enforcement community working out for him?

Trump pardons former Virginia sheriff convicted of taking $75K in bribes

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By Louis Casiano, 26 May 2025

President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he will pardon a former Virginia sheriff convicted of taking more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs within his department.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said Scott Howard Jenkins, 53, of Culpeper, Virginia, was supposed to report to jail Tuesday but "instead will have a wonderful and productive life."

Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County, was convicted last year of one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud, and seven counts of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. He was sentenced in March to 10 years in prison.

In his post, Trump said the former sheriff and his wife have been "dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden" Justice Department.

But was he guilty? Going through hell is not sufficient reason for a pardon.

"In fact, during his trial, when Sheriff Jenkins tried to offer exculpatory evidence to support himself, the Biden Judge, Robert Ballou, refused to allow it, shut him down, and then went on a tirade," Trump wrote. "As we have seen, in Federal, City, and State Courts, Radical Left or Liberal Judges allow into evidence what they feel like, not what is mandated under the Constitution and Rules of Evidence."

That was not true of Judge Ballou.

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Friday, the government attempted to tack on some more time to Jenkins’ sentencing by arguing he participated in the obstruction of justice based on his medical stint that delayed the trial back in November and throughout his testimony to the jury.

Judge Robert Ballou denied the government’s motion, citing the need to protect a defendant’s space to testify if they so choose.

Not what a railroading judge would’ve done.

Judge Ballou gave Jenkins the opportunity to speak to him in court before dealing out his sentencing, but the ex-sheriff declined to say anything. Jenkins reasoning, expressed by his lawyer, was because of his intention to appeal.

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"This Sheriff is a victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day in jail," he added. "He is a wonderful person, who was persecuted by the Radical Left ‘monsters,’ and ‘left for dead.’ This is why I, as President of the United States, see fit to end his unfair sentence, and grant Sheriff Jenkins a FULL and Unconditional Pardon."

Sheriff Jenkins was also the founder of the NGO Make Virginia Great Again, which didn’t do much because Covid happened, but it confirms Jenkins as a Trump supporter in my view, so Trump is pulling a Biden and pardoning his supporter. I looked into the case and it appears legit. Jenkins sought bribes for a reelection campaign that he believed would be undermined by his outspoken support for Second Amendment issues.

Then again…

Federal prosecutors alleged Jenkins accepted cash bribes and bribes in the form of campaign contributions from co-defendants Rick Rahim, Fredric Gumbinner and James Metcalf, as well as at least five others, including two FBI undercover agents.

It was unquestionably a Biden Regime hitjob. The only reason the Feds had jurisdiction is because Jenkins accepted Fed money for his department.

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The former sheriff of Culpeper County is now scheduled to go to trial in July [2024] on 13 federal charges of conspiracy, fraud, and bribery. His three co-defendants have all pled guilty. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.

Light sentencing for everybody else, throw the book at the politically significant guy. Yep, hit job.

As of last week, the third and final co-conspirator has pled guilty in the alleged badges-for-cash scheme orchestrated by former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins and an unnamed auxiliary deputy. Jenkins stands accused of accepting more than $72,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing people as auxiliary deputy sheriffs – which he said would allow them to carry a concealed firearm in any state without a permit.

I’ve seen that tried before, in Arizona I think, but the sheriff in that case did it openly and for little more than the cost of processing. Ergo, not a bribery case, although it was legally troublesome for similar reasons such as “some of my deputies don’t live in my county and I can’t trust them to obey my orders”.

Jenkins had an “auxiliary deputy” program originally started to grant police-status protection to search & rescue volunteers and similar “downrange” friends of his department. Up above, where Trump claimed Judge Ballou refused to allow exculpatory evidence, I see in other reports that that evidence had been the overall purpose of the auxiliary deputy program. But nothing I learned excuses the program being applied to financial donors.

The program was clearly not intended as only a legal loophole around concealed-carry legislation. Not when Jenkins outfitted the recipients with department-issue equipment and swore them in as actual deputies, in return for re-election donations.

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A federal indictment handed down in June 2023 accused Scott H. Jenkins, 51, Sheriff of Virginia’s Culpeper County, of taking bribes totaling more than $72,500 from three local businessmen to make them auxiliary deputy sheriffs—issuing them badges, identification cards, guns and body armor, even helping one [Rahim] get his gun rights restored.

Yeah, that was crossing a line. Rahim got his gun rights revoked for felony tax evasion. I oppose disarming a man for a nonviolent crime, but I also oppose bribery as a way to get 2A rights back. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Although three lefts do.

With a population of over 50,000, the county on the southwestern edge of Washington D.C.’s suburbs elected Jenkins Sheriff in 2011. He subsequently joined the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a group that argues Sheriffs—not courts—have the ultimate authority to interpret the constitution within their jurisdictions, so they may pick and choose which laws to enforce.

That’s the way to do it, although the sheriffs who do take such stands, invariably get “elected away” in the next election cycle or two. They can believe entire governments are criminals, then they submit to the Dumbocratic process operated by those entire governments.

Did Sheriff Jenkins know that, and was therefore worried about being outspent by Marxist slush funds in his next re-election?

According to his indictment, however, Jenkins was worried about his reelection campaign in June 2019 when he texted a local businessman, identified as “Individual 1,” that he was looking to build his war chest. The next month, he texted that his opponent was “hooking up with Democrats to run an attack campaign” and again urged the businessman to locate donors.

More like “Informant #1”.

Individual 1 introduced Jenkins in July 2019 to co-defendant Rick Tariq Rahim, a businessman from another county whose gun rights had been lost. Rahim, now 55, did not reside in Culpeper County, so Jenkins leased him a property to make it appear that he was a resident. The indictment says Jenkins pressured a Culpeper Circuit Court judge as well as staff at the county Commonwealth Attorney’s Office to process and approve restoration of Rahim’s gun rights. Once they were restored, Jenkins made Rahim an auxiliary deputy sheriff and issued him a badge, ID card and gun.

A glowie informant set Jenkins up by introducing him to… spoiler… a convicted, megalomaniacal tax dodger who wanted his gun rights restored despite not having a background of interest in firearms. Discernment much, ex-Sheriff?

Meanwhile, five weeks after they met, Jenkins received a $6,000 check from one of Rahim’s companies. Another 10 days after that, two more checks were made out to Jenkins for $17,500 each, with a note referencing a loan. One was from Rahim and the other from a business associate of his. According to the indictment, Jenkins repaid the business associate but had not repaid Rahim as of January 2023. Moreover, the “loans” and their repayment were never listed by Jenkins on his campaign financial report forms.

Despite the 16-count indictment charging him and co-defendant businessmen with conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, as well as federal program bribery, Jenkins ran for reelection in November 2023. He lost to Tim Chilton, the former deputy police chief in the adjacent city of Culpepper, who took 55% of the vote to Jenkins’ 20%. Another 24% went to Joe Watson, who replaced Jenkins as the local Republican party’s candidate.

Chilton was a political animal and the department-insider default choice AFAICT. Watson went private-sector after his time in law enforcement.

Metcalf and Gumbinner were very small fry, paying a few thousand for, presumably, just the concealed-carry benefit in return for donating to a reelection fund. Definitely a crime, but not a serious one.

But Rick Rahim… *dramatic pause*

Virginia Businessman Rick Tariq Rahim Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Fails to Pay Over $1.8M in Employee's Withheld Taxes

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By Annie Stephan, Updated 18 March 2024

Virginia business entrepreneur Rick Tariq Rahim has admitted to a substantial breach of tax laws, failing to pay over $1.8 million in taxes withheld from his employees. The Department of Justice announced this significant plea, underlining the severe consequences of evading employment tax responsibilities.

Multiple counts of grand theft.

Documents presented in court detailed that from 2015 to 2021, Rahim, who operated several businesses, including laser tag facilities and an Amazon reseller operation, neglected to transfer the taxes he deducted from his staff's salaries to the IRS. Moreover, during this period, Rahim did not submit the mandatory quarterly employment tax returns that would report these withholdings.

He owned several heavily-cash-oriented businesses, which are notorious for money laundering. Hmm, maybe he was starting a laser-tag militia?

His evasion did not end there. Between October 2010 and October 2012, Rahim submitted personal income tax returns reporting significant taxes due but failed to pay those amounts. When the IRS initiated efforts to collect the outstanding taxes, Rahim submitted a misleading Form 433-A Collection Information Statement. This form omitted crucial details about valuable assets in his possession, including a helicopter, a 2006 Bentley, a 2008 Lamborghini, and real estate in Great Falls, Virginia, which he transferred to his wife shortly after the submission.

Despite earning over $34 million in gross income, Rahim has not filed a personal income tax return since 2012.

So, an incredibly corrupt and vainglorious businessman got sentenced to… eventually… only six and a half years for stealing & embezzling millions. Why such a light sentence?

Because he participated in honeypotting the corrupt Sheriff Jenkins, who was a Trump-supporting sheriff, in an off-books plea bargain?

Now you know why Trump claimed there was a Biden conspiracy. Strange that Trump didn’t give any details. Maybe his social media was too limiting to tell the story, or maybe Trump didn’t want to discuss Jenkins actually being dirty. He didn’t take just one bribe from just one Feeb.

I wonder if Jenkins will replace Tim Chilton in the next sheriff’s election? A Presidential Pardon means he’s free to be sheriff again, and double jeopardy means he can’t be charged for the crimes at the state level where they probably should have been charged the first time.

There’s no justice here, just winners and losers.

I close with why I called Rahim a megalomaniac.

Fire 10% Of Your Customers! Why Rick Rahim Says It's OK To Tell People No

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By ACCESS Newswire, 7 October 2019

Rick Rahim is the President of BusinessVentures.com, and has successfully founded dozens of companies in his career. His current businesses aggregate in excess of $30 million in revenue annually.

How generically vague. Isn’t that like being the CEO of IWantMoney.com?

According to Rick, the one trend he believes holds true in all industries is the "problem customer." "We all have those ‘high maintenance' relationships that drain us in business," says Rahim. "Any good business should easily be successful with 90% of its clients. But what do we do about the remaining 10% that seem to demand 90% of our time and resources?"

Rahim says a good CEO can look past the dollars of a single account and more effectively evaluate the overall value of a client. Factors that should carry equal (if not more) weight are the time drain, resource drain, employee morale, and even your personal stress level as the leader of your enterprise.

To learn more, contact Business Ventures at…

“Don’t tolerate customers who cost you money! Follow me for more investment advice!” Rather useless advice, frankly, but I hadn’t come for investment tips. I was researching his background.

ABOUT RICK RAHIM

That’s Rick Rahim on the left… I confess, his name had me expecting an Arab… shaking hands with boxing legend Mike Tyson?! This, on an article giving investment advice?

*Rick Rahim is an accomplished airplane and helicopter pilot, who has even had viral success when he pulled his son's baby tooth out with his helicopter.

“Follow me for more parenting advice!”

In addition to be a lifelong entrepreneur, Rick is also a successful children's book author, having published "Way Up High In The Big Blue Sky." Rick is a certified scuba diver, private investor, and adventurer. Rick has also dabbled in television, such as in this clip broadcasting on Fox & Friends.

None of that involved firearms. Did Sheriff Jenkins not ask why a big-ego man hunted by the IRS wanted his gun rights reinstated badly enough to offer >$20k bribe? One hopes he at least learned to be cautious around big-ego types of men.