Jay Jones, Virginia‘s Democratic attorney general nominee, rubbed shoulders with politicos at catered events and appeared on podcasts after striking a sweetheart deal to perform “community service” for his own political action committee to avoid jail time, newly resurfaced social media posts show.

On Oct. 2, the Richmond Times-Dispatch set off a firestorm by reporting that Jones had avoided jail time after law enforcement caught him speeding at 116 mph by promising to do 1,000 hours of community service. Documents obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch indicated that 500 of those hours were logged at Meet Our Moment, a PAC led by Jones, and the other 500 were recorded at Virginia’s chapter of the NAACP.

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While Jones’s questionable categorization of community service has been widely covered, details on what precisely Jones did at Meet Our Moment and the Virginia NAACP when he was supposedly engaged in that service have been few and far between.

Jones’s social media, campaign finance records, and press reports provide some insight on that front. 

The bulk of Jones’s work at Meet Our Moment in 2023, the period during which he claimed to be doing community service, consisted of him running events to “recruit and train minority and female candidates” and help Democrats win local elections. Photos of these events posted on social media show that they were catered, and at one event, Jones received a basket of muffins from former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who thanked him for his work. 

Hanging at @meetourmoment’s training session and a special gift arrived for our participants! Thanks @PamNorthamVA and @VAGovernor73 for the treat and support of our efforts. Let’s roll! pic.twitter.com/9Kka189xaC

— Jay Jones (@jonesjay) March 25, 2023

Virginia campaign finance records show that Meet Our Moment racked up hundreds of dollars in tabs at establishments like the Orapax Restaurant and Bar and Panera Bread. Orapax serves seafood, specialty pizzas, and traditional Greek cuisine. 

Jones engaged in a host of other partisan activities during his stint of community service with Meet Our Moment, including grabbing coffee with the Young Democrats just outside Washington and knocking on doors for Democratic candidates.

In-person activities aside, Jones appeared on multiple podcasts on behalf of Meet Our Moment to promote his organization and disseminate Democratic talking points. Jones also helped the Virginia NAACP sue Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) in 2023, Virginia Mercury reported. 

The handful of events recorded in Jones’s social media accounts and reported by the media do not appear to amount to 1,000 hours of community service labor. Jones himself admitted on an August 2023 podcast that his organization only holds trainings once “every six months or so.” 

Indeed, documents reviewed by Fox News Digital show that neither Meet Our Moment nor the Virginia NAACP provided time sheets verifying the community service hours they say Jones completed with them. Jones’s 1,000 hours in 2023 would have amounted to roughly 20 hours per week, overlapping with his work as a Justice Department prosecutor for the Biden administration. 

New Kent County prosecutor Randy Del Rossi, who works in the county where law enforcement caught Jones speeding, told Restoration News that the attorney general candidate’s classification of political activism as community service was erroneous. 

“In order to receive a non-jail outcome, community service is unpaid service for any nonpolitical, charitable, nonprofit,” Del Rossi said.

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Jones is facing calls to terminate his campaign for attorney general after text messages surfaced in which the candidate wished death on a Republican lawmaker and his children. Another GOP state lawmaker recently came forward stating that Jones had argued that, if more police officers were killed, fewer people would be shot by law enforcement. Jones denies making such a statement.

Though Jones acknowledges the authenticity of the text messages, he has so far declined to drop out of the race.

In a statement responding to the story, Jones framed the initial National Review report on his violent texts as a partisan attack against him, said he regretted sending the texts, and criticized President Donald Trump at length. 

The Jones campaign did not respond to a request for comment.