My response to the breaking news that @jonesjay is reportedly under criminal investigation.
pic.twitter.com/YNuDVJnknc— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) October 22, 2025
Posted on 10/22/2025 9:02:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the many problems facing Jay Jones' campaign this month has been a story about reckless driving. Back in 2022 Jones went driving on the I-64 freeway east of Richmond, VA and got pulled over for speeding. The speed limit on this stretch of freeway is 70 mph. Jones was caught driving 116 mph, which works out to 46 mph over the limit. Any speed more than 20 mph over the limit is automatically classified as reckless driving and usually results in more than a fine. But not for Jay Jones. He got a sweetheart deal from the court.
If you were caught driving 46 miles per hour over the speed limit in Virginia, would you expect to serve jail time or at least have your license suspended or driving privileges restricted? Those are the kinds of consequences many Virginia drivers have had to face but Jay Jones did not...
Court records show, one man was found guilty of driving 115 mph in a 70 in New Kent County. He got 10 days in jail, his license was suspended for six months, he was fined $2,000, and once he got his license back, he could only drive to and from work.
On the same day Jones received his sentence, a Woodbridge man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving 115 mph in a 70-mph zone. The Prince William County man’s sentence was suspended as long as he didn’t speed again. The Woodbridge man’s license was suspended for six months, then restricted, and he was fined $1,500...
Jones, a former Virginia lawmaker, got no jail time for driving 116 mph in a 70 on I-64. He paid a $1,500 fine, his driving privileges were not impacted and he got 1,000 hours of community service.
That kind of two-tiered justice, where a member of the political class gets a lesser sentence than regular people caught doing the same thing ought to be a scandal, but in this case that's not even the part of this that is under investigation.
Jones was given 1,000 hours of community service. Community service is intended to benefit the entire community, i.e. things like picking up garbage along the freeway. But Jones never got his hands dirty. Instead, he fulfilled all 1,000 hours in a single year (2023) while also working full time and campaigning for office. And half of those hours were served working for his own political PAC.
It's never been clear how that was possible and now a special prosecutor has been created to find out. National Review has the scoop.
Jones was convicted of reckless driving in New Kent County after being pulled over driving 116mph in a 70mph zone in 2022. He was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine and serve 1,000 community service hours. The New Kent County general district court received signed certificates of completion in January 2024 attesting that Jones had served 500 of those community service hours for his own political action committee, Meet Our Moment (MOM PAC), and the remaining 500 hours for the Virginia chapter of the NAACP...
On October 9, ABC7 News reported that Renick, the New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney, was investigating how exactly Jones had cleared his community service hours.
The certificates signed by representatives of the NAACP and MOM PAC attest that Jones completed more than 500 hours of community service for each organization within the 2023 calendar year. In order to complete that number of hours within one year, Jones would have had to dedicate ten hours of every week to MOM PAC and ten hours to the NAACP, all while working at the law firm Hogan Lovells full time. Social media posts show Jones also traveled the state campaigning for fellow Democrats throughout that year.
Working for a partisan PAC probably should not be an option for a community service requirement. That's why county attorney Scott Renick started looking into this.
“It’s supposed to be something where you’re giving back to the community,” New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney Scott Renick said.
Last week, 7News asked Jones’ campaign exactly what he did for those 500 hours at his PAC. We never got a response.
Yesterday, Renick asked a judge to recuse him and the judge agreed and put another county attorney in place as a special prosecutor to continue the investigation into Jones.
On Tuesday, roughly two weeks after the ABC7 report, Judge Bondurant signed an order granting Renick’s request to recuse himself from the probe and have a special prosecutor appointed in “the matter currently pending in the General District Court in New Kent County.” The order names Jerrauld C. Jones as defendant and references the case number of his reckless driving conviction.
Jason Miyares, Jones' opponent in the race, just released a statement about the special prosecutor. He's calling on Jones to drop out.
My response to the breaking news that @jonesjay is reportedly under criminal investigation.
pic.twitter.com/YNuDVJnknc— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) October 22, 2025
From Fox News:
"It is not possible for Jay Jones to fulfill the duties of the attorney general while under an open criminal investigation," Miyares told Fox News Digital after learning of the document, first reported by National Review.
"If Jay stays in the race, it shows a contempt for voters never seen in modern Virginia political history."...
"Now we learn that he may have misled the courts to avoid jail time for recklessly driving 116mph. He has not taken accountability for his words or actions," Miyares said.
Here's Miyares reacting in a local news interview.
New: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told me just now that Jay Jones should be disqualified from serving as Attorney General. A special prosecutor has been appointed to a criminal investigation to find out how Jones cleared his 1,000 hours of community service after his eckless driving conviction. pic.twitter.com/IQ7csYiRGJ— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) October 22, 2025
Stay tuned. Maybe this will finally convince Virginia Democrats to abandon this guy.
His laminated race card. He never goes out without it.
"Examples of public service for a crime sentence in Virginia include working at a food bank, cleaning up a park, helping at a library, or assisting the elderly."
"Tutoring: Helping students with homework or providing academic support at an after-school program."
Orwell’s “Animal Farm” in action.
Another "person of color" hone totally berserk.
No mention of prior offenses, previous driving record, of the other examples. Only the penalty given.
There’s more to a fine, or sentence, than just the offense itself.
This is a poorly written article. No surprise.
FTA——Candidate Jsy Jones, a former Virginia lawmaker, got no jail time for driving 116 mph in a 70 on I-64. He paid a $fine, but his driving privileges were not impacted.
On the same day Jones received his sentence, a Woodbridge man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving 115 mph in a 70-mph zone. The man’s sentence was suspended as long as he didn’t speed again. The Woodbridge man’s license was suspended for six months, then restricted, and he was fined $1,500.
Commonwealth’s Attorney
Physical Address:
12001 Courthouse Circle
2nd Floor of County Courthouse
New Kent, VA 23124
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 221
New Kent, VA 23124
Phone:
(804) 966-5548
Fax:
(804) 966-5034
Office Hours
Monday - Friday
8:30 am - 4:30pm
Message: On October 9, ABC7 News reported that the New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney, was investigating how exactly Jones had cleared his community service hours.
The certificates signed by representatives of the NAACP and MOM PAC attest that Jones completed more than 500 hours of community service for each organization within the 2023 calendar year. In order to complete that number of hours within one year, Jones would have had to dedicate ten hours of every week to MOM PAC and ten hours to the NAACP, all while working at the law firm Hogan Lovells full time. Social media posts show Jones also traveled the state campaigning for fellow Democrats throughout that year.
I have been places where people are doing community service and they have forms with the number of hours on that specific day they completed, the exact work/community service and someone has to sign off on it.
Where is that paperwork?
Bkmk
I wonder how many hours he billed in 2023?
....when people do community service there’s forms w/ number of hours completed on a specific day, naming the exact work/community service; someone has to sign off on it. Where is his paperwork?.....
You are so right.....I believe his “paperwork” is being investigated.
I wonder how many hours he billed in 2023?
Enough to take a trip to Vegas?
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