Looks like a group of traitors who sold their souls for fifteen silver coins....
That’s about it....greed and power, very difficult for either to exist without the other.
I generally look at people like the sheriff, and the many others like him...as the bowing servants of the movers and shakers.....they could care less about those over them but will bow none-the-less to be seen with these creeps and close to the power they believe they weld.