Its Okay, He's Just Stupid and a Mormon, NOT Crooked (link)

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SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff this week shed new light on bribery allegations made last month against new Attorney General John Swallow.

Shurtleff said he told federal investigators last October about those allegations made by St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson.

"It was going to come out, so I felt like the Feds ought to know," Shurtleff said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C. The former three-term Republican attorney general now works for an international law firm in the nation's capital.

Shurtleff said he met with Johnson and then talked with Swallow, not long before Swallow won the November election.

He also went to the FBI. Shurtleff says Swallow may have used bad judgement, but he does not think his friend and former colleague broke the law.

"I'm confident that at the end of the day, that his innocence will be proven," Shurtleff says of his former chief deputy attorney general.

In October, as Swallow campaigned to succeed Shurtleff as the state's top lawman, Johnson contacted Shurtleff.