Hutchinson is pictured above in 2016 at a fundraiser in Bryant, Arkansas.
A criminally convicted former Arkansas legislator, was pardoned from a criminal sentence by President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, according to CBS News journalist Libby Cathey. Jeremy Young Hutchinson, age 51, served as a Republican in an area covering both Saline and Pulaski County. Read more below.
The former State Senator was convicted of multiple crimes. The list includes accepting over $350,000 in bribes in exchange for legislative favors, wire fraud, tax fraud, and misusing campaign funds for personal expenses.
Hutchinson was sentenced on Feb 3, 2023 to spend 46 months in prison for convictions in Arkansas, according to Associated Press. Then in April 2023, he was sentenced to another 50 months in the state of Missouri, according to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. This total of 8 years was along with a money judgment of $468,125 for one count of conspiracy.
Hutchinson was serving time at a minimum-security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, according to Arkansas Times. Their article says he would have been released on May 25, 2029 – another 4 years from now – if he hadn’t been pardoned.
Hutchinson is known in Arkansas as the son of former United States Senator Tim Hutchinson, and the nephew of former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.