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Trump Org ethics lawyer’s wife arrested with inmate in backseat of car

The wife of one of the Trump Organization’s top ethics lawyers was arrested Tuesday for allegedly having sex with a 23-year-old inmate in the parking lot of a Virginia detention center.

Teresa Jo Burchfield, the 53-year-old wife of Bobby Burchfield, an ethics advisor for the Trump Organization since January, was apprehended by police officers in a car outside of the Fauquier County Adult Detention Center engaging in “suspicious” behavior.

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“The defendant was caught in the backseat of her vehicle with an inmate…,” Dept. J. B. Thorpe wrote in Burchfield’s criminal complaint, which was obtained by local news outlet Fauquier Times. “When the inmate exited the vehicle, he handed me a bag of brown pills (capsules), that he claims to be workout pills.”

The inmate had been allowed outside because he was what law enforcement considered a “trustee,” meaning he’s allowed to work outside the correctional facility, Lt. James Hartman of the Fauquier County Sheriff’s office told VICE News.

Burchfield allegedly gave “unauthorized articles” to the inmate and was charged with a class 1 misdemeanor. Their parking lot meetings had occurred for about a month, the inmate told deputies, according to the court filings obtained.

Her husband Bobby Burchfield has a longstanding history with the GOP party, representing George W. Bush in 2000 during the Florida presidential election recount and serving as general counsel on George H. W. Bush’s re-election campaign, according to Politico. He was named Republican Lawyer of the Year in 2015.

Burchfield was released on $5,000 secured bond, Lt. Hartman confirmed to VICE News.

Image: Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office handout