Posted on 02/05/2016 6:22:51 AM PST by fungoking
A Midway businessman is facing charges under Utah's commercial terrorism statute after investigators say he took scores of free tourism brochures out of stands owned by a competitor and replaced them with his own brochures. Scott Jay Eckersley is charged in 4th District Court with four counts of commercial obstruction, a second-degree felony. Wasatch County prosecutor Mckay King said the charges are appropriate, based on the allegations against Eckersley. Over the past year, Eckersley went to the Zermatt Resort & Spa in Midway four times and "totally cleaned out" a competitor's display of free tourism brochures, according to Wasatch County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Winterton. "A whole rack — every brochure that was in the display at the time would be missing," Winterton said, noting that Eckersley would apparently replace the discarded brochures with his own tourism pamphlets. "On the last occasion, it's my understanding that the whole rack was missing," Winterton said. "It was later discovered discarded in an area Dumpster and it was damaged beyond repair." Surveillance video helped investigators identify Eckersley and they obtained a warrant for his arrest, Winterton said. He was booked into the Wasatch County Jail, declined to talk to detectives and was released after posting bail, the lieutenant said. Eckersley, 38, has been in the public eye before, according to media reports and court records. In September 2007, then-Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt fired Eckersley from his position as Blunt's deputy chief counsel, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After the settlement, Eckersley launched a campaign for the U.S. House in 2010, seeking to win in Missouri's 7th Congressional District. Eckersley, who still has an active Missouri law license, lost by a healthy margin, election results show. p>
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To paraphrase Gus McCall, Scott Eckersley is a weak vessel to pour much faith into.
He was fired by the republican governor of Missouri who he then sued. He'd been working on governor Blunt's staff for less than a year when he got fired. He alleged it was because he advised the staff that under the Sunshine Law, certain emails had to be retained.
The governor's office told media that Eckersley never gave such advice and said Eckersley was fired for being late and doing private legal work on state time. His bosses then released emails from Eckersley's work account (and his personal account, too, he claims) to support those claims, as well as other email that stirred speculation about aspects of Eckersley's personal life.
His true colors came out as he switched parties and ran a losing campaign in a solid republican district trying to blame a report that his campaign was shutting down. He then went to Utah and was arrested.
If this is the smoking gun the Trump fanboys think proves their case they are in trouble.
But they won’t read it, it might cause a conflict in their already made up minds.
“commercial terrorism statute”
It just keeps getting worse.
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