A damning report from a House committee concluded Wednesday that former Utah Attorney General John Swallow hung a "For Sale" sign on the door of the office, doing favors for wealthy supporters and friends, compromising Utahns’ interests and damaging the integrity of the justice system in the process.Read up:
And drilling down to the substantive issues revealed in yesterday's report, Trib reporter Marissa Lang reels out a dazzling litany of potential crimes which former AG John Swallow could be charged:
- Bribery
- Official misconduct
- Theft of services
- Obstruction of justice
- Evidence tampering
- Witness tampering
- Violation of open records laws
- Other patterns of unlawful of activity.
Davis and Salt Lake County prosecutors, Rawlings and Gill: The ball's now clearly in your court. Looks like your cases have been handed to you on a silver platter, thanks to the relentless work of Special Counsel Steven F. Reich, and his support team of carefully selected legal and investigative hot-shots.
And on an equally positive note, it appears that our Utah legislature is busily setting the stage for John Swallow's future "digs," even as the Swallow story continues to play out in the Utah press:
Needless to say, we'll continue to follow this story here on WCF as it develops.
Update 3/13/14 11:34 a.m.: More from the Salt Lake Tribune's niftiest blogger. The headline says it all:
Mark your bookmark links to WCF, O Gentle Ones. Our "psychic sensors" detect a whole new raft of articles on this topic coming right up.
