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hm let me see the feds didnt hink it was worth there time goin after the bush admin for there high crimes and misdemeaners…they didnt feel it was worth there time to go after the wall street and bankers who dammed near brought this country to its knees finacially now they didnt feel it was worth its time goin after corrupt DA’s than your doin a heck of a job holder
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I am surprised a practicing Sikh got elected in Utah. How did this happen?
It doesn’t MATTER if they don’t get convicted. It doesn’t MATTER if they do. What MATTERS is they get their asses hauled into court.
All it takes is guts.
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Perhaps if the man didn’t cut his hair, wore the traditional Sikh turban and didn’t appear as assimilated as he does from that picture above, I’m only guessing that he never would have gotten the job in culturally uptight Utah in the first place. But that’s just a guess…
Salt Lake County DA Sim Gill is one of the most thoughtful intelligent people in Utah. A true gem for our state. You can support his re-election here http://votesim.com . To get a broader picture of what makes him tic visit his FB page and read his posts.
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Find out WHO in the DOJ dropped the case and what THEIR connection to the Utah DA’s under indictment are.
This was not dropped at the national level, it was dropped by the Regional office.
Probably a STRONG Mormon connection here…
Just say’in.
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Salt Lake City is to Utah as Austin is to Texas.
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Here’s the scoop: law enforcement is corrupt from top to bottom at every level in this country. There’s some quid pro quo going on somewhere, and Utah is incredibly corrupt.
“This DOJ investigation was conducted by experienced, seasoned prosecutors who …”
“experienced”
“seasoned”
In other words, jaded, political, probably effete and possibly corrupt.
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Any other TPM old-timers* reading this and wanting to know just a bit more about who in the Utah US Attorney’s office made that decision to drop the case?
According to a quick wikipedia scan the current USA, David Barlow, is an Obama appointee - but prior to his nomination he was a staffer for GOTP Sen. Mike Lee. He was on the job about a year before his office dropped this case. Prior to that there was a career staffer filling in as acting USA for some time.
I don’t claim that anything was necessarily not completely on the up and up with the case being dropped, but still. Gotta wonder.
*that is, anyone around back in the days when TPM was piecing together the evidence that broke the Bush US Attorney firing scandal, instead of firing off sloppy rewrites topped with click bait headlines. OK yes, I’m still here, showing I’m just as susceptible as the next sucker to brand loyalty. And about 20 percent of the content here is good enough to keep me coming back…
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One of the unique things about this site is that people like you are willing and capable of looking things up and coming back and sharing vs. SCREAMING and moving on. I’ve always appreciated the thoughtfulness and informed dialog here.
But you’re right, this could use some more investigation. TPM isn’t nearly a large enough entity to go after a local item like this in depth. Maybe local sources?
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The accompanying article is http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mark-shurtleff-john-swallow-wildest-details
Greg Sargent, we hardly knew ye.
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Now, he just has to get the W. A pair of convictions with some serious penalties is the key to deterrence and what Swallow and pre-Swallow deserve.
Open Secrets shows a Jeremy Johnson who made several donations to Shurtleff also made a donation in June of 2010 to Lee, Mike ® of $2,400 The Wiki says Barlow took the USAG position in October 2011 but prior to that was chief counsel to Mike Lee “in connection with Lee’s position as a member of the Senate judiciary committee…” Not clear from the Wiki if there was a gap between the two positions.
I suppose.
But my brother went to grad school at U of Utah and just about every complaint he had was about the excessive influence of the Mormon church in every detail of everything.
I agree with you, but still would prefer conviction. Anything else just shows the next generation that they can flaunt the law and get away with it. I really don’t understand our Federal Justice Department, as they don’t seem to go after the big fish, regardless of how culpable they seem to be. What the hell do they go after?