As Utah Democrats called for a federal investigation, Utah Attorney General John Swallow late Saturday issued a strong denial of allegations that he helped broker a deal to help embattled businessman Jeremy Johnson’s legal problems go away — an arrangement Johnson considered a bribe.
Swallow said in a statement that Johnson has done "everything he can to damage me as a desperate way to get out of his own legal problems."
"My intentions were good but I misjudged Mr. Johnson’s character and regret meeting with him," Swallow said.
The statement includes a point-by-point denial of Johnson’s claims that Swallow put him in touch with Richard Rawle, the late founder of the Check City payday loan businesses, to arrange a bribe. Johnson said he agreed to pay $600,000 to Rawle, who would use his connections with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make Johnson’s problems with the Federal Trade Commission disappear.....Swallow produced an affidavit from Rawle signed three days before Rawle died from cancer, stating that Johnson paid Rawle $250,000. Rawle used $100,000 of that money to hire unnamed lobbyists to try to avert a lawsuit against Johnson and I Works, Johnson’s Internet marketing company, the declaration said. Rawle’s fee was $50,000.
"I have recently heard that Mr. Johnson is making allegations that money was used to inappropriately influence a member of Congress," Rawle said in the affadavit. "I have no knowledge of any such plan and expressly deny this allegation."
A separate affidavit from Scott Leavitt, an I Works executive, said he put up $200,000 of the money paid to Rawle for an advocacy campaign to prevent FTC action, but considered the money nonrefundable.... http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55618852-90/swallow-johnson-rawle-font.html.csp?page=2We will see how this goes. If there is no special investigation by Eric Holder's DOJ, I suspect that there was some money passed on to Nevada's Harry Reid.
If Holder does authorize an investigation, I would think that Harry had nothing to do with this case.
So, I do agree with Democrats. Let's see where an investigation will go. If it gets a Republican, so be it. If it gets Harry Reid, fantastic.
Further, if the guy did pay for Reid to help him out, and it seems like there is evidence to say it happened, where is the money? Where is the money that was used to supposedly to bribe Reid with?
As an aside, the Las Vegas, Las Vegas's extreme liberal newspaper, that has no advertising and is unable to deliver it's newspaper by it's self, having to depend to Las Vegas's conservative newspaper, the LVRJ, to have it's paper delivered, has so far, refused to write about this story. If this was a Republican, like dean Heller, they would be all over the story, but because it is about Harry Reid, they are trying to kill the story, just like they did this past Fall and Summer, when they refused to write about Reid's shameful comments about Mitt Romney. Typical liberal and crackhead Brian Greenspun's cover-up for Reid.
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