Charging documents released Tuesday after the arrest of two former Utah attorneys general detailed a battery of corruption and bribery accusations that included the allegation that one of them accepted payments to try and help an embattled local businessman make his case to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The charging documents quote an email exchange in which former state Attorney General John Swallow allegedly tells the businessman -- who was facing a federal fraud investigation -- that he could help him gain access to Reid through an intermediary, but it “won’t be cheap.”
The anecdote was a pointed reminder that a case which has made headlines for months in Utah could eventually have national implications.
“This has been a complex, nuanced, large investigation,” said Utah County Prosecutor Sim Gill, a Democrat, who led the joint investigation with Republican Troy Rawlings from neighboring Davis County. “There are multiple players in it, and there have been very productive leads that continue to be investigated.”
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Politicians (famous ones, too.....just never "your guy", right??) taking bribes, kickbacks, under-the-table favors, and "fees" for '"access".
I KNOW your guy is hard at work on that right now, changing things.
Keep cheering.
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