King & Spalding partner Bobby Burchfield, named earlier this year to serve as the Trump Organization's top ethics counsel, and former Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb, who joined the White House this summer as a member of the president's legal defense team in special counsel Robert Mueller III's Russia investigation, both saw their names emerge in two eyebrow-raising reports this week.

On Thursday, the Fauquier Times of Warrenton, Virginia, reported that Burchfield's wife had been arrested after having sex with an inmate at a local jail. Teresa Jo Burchfield, 53, was taken into custody on Tuesday by jailhouse guards after they reportedly found her in the backseat of a car in a parking lot adjacent to the Fauquier County Adult Detention Center.

A complaint filed against Teresa Jo Burchfield states that a search of the 23-year-old inmate found with her indicated that he had been given cigarettes, clothes and vitamin supplements, the newspaper said. The name of the inmate was not disclosed, although The Daily Caller, a politically conservative website, noted the name of an individual in the detention center whose identity appeared to match certain descriptors included in the misdemeanor charges filed against Burchfield's wife, who has been released on a $5,000 bond.