The Virginia attorney general race just got a seismic jolt — and it didn’t come from the campaign trail.
Attorney General Jason Miyares is pulling no punches after court filings revealed that his Democratic challenger, Jay Jones, is either still under criminal investigation or has found himself again under the scrutiny of prosecutors.
The development, buried in a procedural request for recusal by Commonwealth’s Attorney Scott Renick, strongly suggests the reckless driving case against Jones — in which he was clocked at a staggering 116 miles per hour — is not closed, as many had believed.
“This isn’t just reckless behind the wheel — it’s reckless behavior unfit for the office of Attorney General,” Miyares told Fox News Digital. “If Jay stays in the race, it shows a contempt for voters never seen in modern Virginia political history.”
The court order, signed by Judge B. Elliott Bondurant, confirmed that Renick asked to be recused due to an unspecified conflict of interest. In response, Bondurant appointed special prosecutor Nathan R. Green, the Commonwealth’s Attorney from neighboring James City County, to take over the case. That’s a significant move — and one that doesn’t happen unless something more serious is underfoot.
The controversy doesn’t stop with the original 116 mph offense. Jay Jones’ decision to fulfill half of his 1,000 court-ordered community service hours through his own political action committee, MOMPAC, has raised ethical and possibly legal concerns.
The other 500 hours, reportedly completed through the NAACP of Virginia, were validated by a sworn statement from the organization’s president, but as of yet, no time logs have been made public. The idea that a candidate for attorney general could potentially use a political vehicle to satisfy a criminal sentence is unprecedented — and politically radioactive.
Add to this the resurfacing of Jones’ alleged violent text messages about former House Speaker Todd Gilbert — which Miyares says should have been disqualifying on their own — and the optics grow darker still. “He has not taken accountability for his words or actions,” Miyares added, framing this latest twist as “icing on the cake.”
Now with a special prosecutor stepping in and transparency questions mounting, the Jay Jones campaign is facing a crisis that can’t be spun away. As Fox News Digital pursues further documentation through FOIA requests, including all communications between the county and both MOMPAC and the NAACP, there may be even more beneath the surface of this case.
