Major law firms, gambling ventures, and tobacco companies, all entities that could have legal business before Virginia after the elections, cut large checks to Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones, campaign finance records show.

These contributions to Jones’s campaign were made before news broke about text conversations in which Jones fantasized about shooting a Republican colleague and suggested that his children should die as well. Since the revelations about his text messages, Jones has been accused of claiming that killing police officers could have positive effects and misrepresenting political work as community service to avoid jail time.

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