{"id":56088,"date":"2025-10-24T20:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/scandal-plagued-virginia-ag-hopefuls-wife-reportedly-donated-to-fund-that-freed-accused-criminals-murderers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:55:15","slug":"scandal-plagued-virginia-ag-hopefuls-wife-reportedly-donated-to-fund-that-freed-accused-criminals-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/scandal-plagued-virginia-ag-hopefuls-wife-reportedly-donated-to-fund-that-freed-accused-criminals-murderers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal-plagued Virginia AG hopeful\u2019s wife reportedly donated to fund that freed accused criminals, murderers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones faced new political fallout Friday after a report revealed his wife had donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund<\/a>, a controversial bail organization that used millions to spring violent offenders, including accused rapists and murderers, from jail.<\/p>\n

In May 2020, during unrest in Minneapolis after George Floyd\u2019s death, Mavis Jones posted<\/a> on Twitter: “I just donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund,” linking to the group\u2019s donation page and urging others to do the same. The account has since gone private.<\/p>\n

The revelation, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>, comes as Jones, a Democrat, trails Republican incumbent Jason Miyares in a tightening race for Virginia\u2019s top law enforcement post. The state\u2019s attorney general oversees state-level prosecutions and police oversight.<\/p>\n

JAY JONES TEXT SCANDAL SPARKS DONATION SURGE AS GOP GROUP POURS MILLIONS MORE INTO VA RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Minnesota Freedom Fund, promoted at the time by several progressive figures, including Sen. Kamala Harris<\/a>, raised more than $41 million during the 2020 protests, pledging to support demonstrators arrested during clashes with police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But a FOX 9 investigation<\/a> later found the group spent most of its money bailing out defendants accused of serious violent crimes rather than low-level protest offenses.<\/p>\n

Among those bailed out was Christopher Boswell, a twice-convicted rapist facing new kidnapping and assault charges who was freed after the fund posted $350,000 in cash bail.<\/p>\n

The group also paid $100,000 to release Darnika Floyd, who was charged with second-degree murder, and $75,000 for Jaleel Stallings, who allegedly fired at a Minneapolis SWAT team before being acquitted at trial.<\/p>\n

Greg Lewin, then the fund\u2019s interim executive director, told FOX 9 that same year, “The last time we were down there, the clerk said, \u2018We hate it when you bail out these sex offenders.\u2019 I often don\u2019t even look at a charge when I bail someone out.”<\/p>\n

JONES AND MIYARES CLASH OVER MURDER TEXTS AS DEM REPEATEDLY INVOKES TRUMP AT HEATED, HIGH-STAKES DEBATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In one case, the fund posted bail for George Howard, a career criminal later charged with fatally shooting a man in a Minneapolis road rage incident just weeks after his release.<\/p>\n

The news adds to a string of controversies for Jones, 35, who has already apologized for violent text messages directed at Republican leaders. In one exchange, he wrote that then\u2013House Speaker Todd Gilbert gets “two bullets to the head” and that Gilbert\u2019s wife Jennifer should “watch her children die.”<\/p>\n

Court records also show Jones was convicted of reckless driving in 2022<\/a> for traveling 116 mph on a Virginia highway. He was fined $1,500 and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service, but a state ethics review is examining whether hours spent volunteering for his own political committee should count toward the sentence.<\/p>\n

The latest controversy gives Miyares and Republicans new fodder in the closing weeks of the campaign. A Trafalgar Group poll<\/a> released Oct. 17 found Miyares leading 49.5% to 44.6%, a reversal from earlier surveys that had Jones up six points before the text scandal broke.<\/p>\n

As of Friday, Mavis Jones has set her X account to private.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Freedom Fund and the Jay Jones campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones faced new political fallout Friday after a report revealed his wife had donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a controversial bail organization that used millions to spring violent offenders, including accused rapists and murderers, from jail. In May 2020, during unrest in Minneapolis after George Floyd\u2019s death, Mavis Jones … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}