In Terry McAuliffe's final year as governor, the Virginia Democrat's parole board released a violent offender who later attempted to rob a woman and her kids at knifepoint in their own home.
In November 2017, the Virginia Parole Board—led by McAuliffe's appointed chairwoman, Adrianne Bennett—released 44-year-old career criminal Karim Aziz Muhammad, who was serving a life sentence for armed robbery. While McAuliffe has dismissed concerns that paroled offenders could go on to commit more illegal acts, Muhammad soon returned to a "life of crime," according to police.
Muhammad went back to prison after he robbed an eastern Virginia grocery store in April 2020. But he quickly secured bail, and just two months later, he broke into a woman's home—where children were present—while armed with a knife. After demanding cash and other valuables, Muhammad fled the home, leading police on a car chase that ended when he crashed into a state trooper's vehicle and assaulted an officer. Muhammad's own child was also in the car during the chase.
The ordeal exemplifies how McAuliffe—who is running for a second term as governor against Republican Glenn Youngkin—transformed Virginia's parole board. In 2016, the board denied Muhammad's release due to the criminal's "history of violence." Months later, however, McAuliffe replaced the board's chair with Bennett, citing his desire to "make sure that we are moving expeditiously on these parole hearings." Bennett went on to brag to a fellow board employee that she would "wave that wand of power" and "release anyone you say to release," leaked emails show.
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