Harry Reid Case
US Sen. Harry Reid is under Investigation, Says Utah Prosecutor
U. S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada is being investigated regarding a pay-to-play plan that involve two past attorneys general of Utah, said a country prosecutor Wednesday.
A Republican, Country Attorney Troy Rawlings ensured that he is inquiring on the accusation against the Democratic senator.
Rawlings, however, didn’t disclose anything about the allegations and only informed the petitions are filed on the information provided by the witnesses in the general case.
Reid, in a statement by his spokesperson Kristen Orthman fired back at Rawlings though he hasn’t been charged. The spokeswoman claimed Rawlings is grabbing attention using the name of Sen. Reid and thus, is accelerating …show more content…
Both of them were arrested in the last summer as prosecutors stated the men involved with a wide-ranging, pay-to-play plan where they played favors with businessmen in difficulty with regulators at the time of their combined operating the state office for 13 years.
Swallow has begged not in the wrong to bribery charges. Shurtleff has urged not guilty to hindering justice charges. Both have schedules of trails in 2016.
Rawlings revived his criticism of the U.S. Department of Justice for restricting the information he has right to use and the matter what he is able to investigate.
Justice officials shut the investigation in 2013 without taking charges. FBI investigators continued the case to assist state attorneys who dealt it.
"It is not the matter of DOJ to inform me who should and who shouldn’t be investigated and which facts are relevant and matter to a state case," Rawlings said.
Justice officials avoided commenting on the matter.
Rawlings is considered the top prosecutor in Davis County in northern Utah since 2007. He succeeded his first election to this post after having worked as an attorney for six years. He started his profession as a defense
U. S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada is being investigated regarding a pay-to-play plan that involve two past attorneys general of Utah, said a country prosecutor Wednesday.
A Republican, Country Attorney Troy Rawlings ensured that he is inquiring on the accusation against the Democratic senator.
Rawlings, however, didn’t disclose anything about the allegations and only informed the petitions are filed on the information provided by the witnesses in the general case.
Reid, in a statement by his spokesperson Kristen Orthman fired back at Rawlings though he hasn’t been charged. The spokeswoman claimed Rawlings is grabbing attention using the name of Sen. Reid and thus, is accelerating …show more content…
Both of them were arrested in the last summer as prosecutors stated the men involved with a wide-ranging, pay-to-play plan where they played favors with businessmen in difficulty with regulators at the time of their combined operating the state office for 13 years.
Swallow has begged not in the wrong to bribery charges. Shurtleff has urged not guilty to hindering justice charges. Both have schedules of trails in 2016.
Rawlings revived his criticism of the U.S. Department of Justice for restricting the information he has right to use and the matter what he is able to investigate.
Justice officials shut the investigation in 2013 without taking charges. FBI investigators continued the case to assist state attorneys who dealt it.
"It is not the matter of DOJ to inform me who should and who shouldn’t be investigated and which facts are relevant and matter to a state case," Rawlings said.
Justice officials avoided commenting on the matter.
Rawlings is considered the top prosecutor in Davis County in northern Utah since 2007. He succeeded his first election to this post after having worked as an attorney for six years. He started his profession as a defense