Posted on 07/15/2014 6:10:21 PM PDT by blueplum
Utah prosecutors on Tuesday filed criminal charges against two former state attorneys general in a court filing that makes tantalizing references to a possible pay-to-play influence scheme involving U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
In a court filing in Utah County, District Attorney Sam Gill charged former attorneys general John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff with numerous felony state crimes, including bribery, acceptance of illegal gifts, evidence tampering and a “pattern of unlawful activity.”
The charges were expected for months and both men were taken into custody. Mr. Shurtleff served for many years as Utah’s top law enforcement official before retiring in 2013 and was succeeded by Mr. Swallow, who resigned in controversy after just a year. Both are Republicans.
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The court records state Mr. Swallow reached out through an intermediary to secure the meeting with Mr. Reid and informed Mr. Johnson “that the price to obtain access” to someone who could arrange the meeting “won’t be cheap.”
Mr. Johnson reached out to Mr. Swallow’s intermediary in a Oct. 7, 2010 email with the subject line of...
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Well, well. Hope this goes somewhere.
GUILTY! SHOOT HIM!
The greatest scam going is pay to play, in D.C. Third world countries operate pay to play as sop. D.C. has been this way (fully) since Former President Reagan left office.
Dingy Harry’s a crook. We knew that.
Some day the s**t is going to stick and Nevadans will wake up.
‘GUILTY! SHOOT HIM!’
Can’t do that we have to have a Show Trial first.
I have heard a rumor that Lois Lerner and her fellow guvermint hard drive crashers picked up a virus on a porno site and passed it around to each other. Nothing else can explain the sudden loss of hard drives by people who knew each other and worked together.
Pray
If you ask Harry Reid he’ll tell you it’s all the Koch brothers fault.
Really Nevada, can’t you do better than this?
The prosecutor is a demon rat. Apparently it’s a crime to offer a bribe TO a demon rat politician, but it’s not a crime for the demon rat to solicit or accept the bribe. Funny how that works in the progressive alternate universe.
Harry (the booty) Reid.....
.Synonyms booty, pillage, plunder, spoil, swag
Related Words prize; catch, haul, take, treasure; pilferage; windfall
Mr. Cleanface’s Dirty Laundry: Harry Reid’s Mob Money
HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Youtube video 2:44)
Harry Reid, Caught in Land deal in Nevada (FR thread, video linked there)
Railroad job. The worst one I’ve ever seen.
The prosecutor is a county rat, only applying state law, because the DOJ dropped the case, saying there was nothing to see here, once Reid’s name came up.
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