{"id":2982,"date":"2008-11-26T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2012-04-17T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:16:27","slug":"utah-attorney-general-mark-shurtleff-more-suspect-campaign-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/utah-attorney-general-mark-shurtleff-more-suspect-campaign-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff: More Suspect Campaign Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t the first time (and won’t be the last time) that a contribution to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s campaign fund<\/a> is followed by questionable activity. The latest allegations of impropriety involve\u00a0 a computer consulting company called DigitalBridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On September 29, 2008, AG Shurtleff wrote a letter on his office’s letterhead<\/a> to the National Association of Attorneys General, endorsing the services of DigitalBridge<\/a> and providing the company’s contact information. This doesn’t sound like a big deal unless you consider that on September 18, 2008, DigitalBridge made a $10,000 contribution to Shurtleff’s campaign<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Mark Shurtleff denies any impropriety, but it’s a little hard to believe him when one examines his past behavior related to campaign contributions which appear to be more properly termed bribes.<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s the recent situation of a lucrative case awarded to law firm Siegfried & Jensen<\/a>, which has contributed almost $60,000 to Shurtleff’s campaigns over the last eight years. There were no bids offered for the legal work, just proposals which Shurtleff reviewd.<\/p>\n

Mark Shurtleff has also received<\/a> significant contributions from the payday lending industry<\/a>, which he has supported.<\/p>\n

There was the criminal fraud and racketerring case of Marc Sessions Jenson<\/a>, for which Mark Shurtleff<\/a> is accused of bringing the charges as a personal favor to donor (and alleged victim) Ricke White. White’s wife gave Shurtleff’s campaign a total of $6,500 in the two years before the charges were brought.<\/p>\n

Then there’s Shurtleff’s endorsement of multi-level marketing company Usana Health Sciences<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And of course, there’s the time Shurtleff wrote an untrue letter to Patrick Byrne (CEO of Overstock) about Sam Antar, who graciously provided free training to Shurtleff’s office. That letter followed a $5,000 campaign contribution by Overstock<\/a>, and the letter was used in conjuction with an Overstock.com press release to smear Sam.<\/p>\n

And there’s Shurtleff’s wholehearted support for the multi-level marketing industry<\/a>, with MLM companies coincidentally contributing $231,000 to Shurtleff’s campaigns between 2003 and 2007, and another $65,500 in 2008 alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shurtleff claims these are all coincidences. Have you ever seen a politicians with so many coincidences with similar characteristics? If it walks like a duck…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t the first time (and won’t be the last time) that a contribution to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s campaign fund is followed by questionable activity. The latest allegations of impropriety involve\u00a0 a computer consulting company called DigitalBridge. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,872,184],"tags":[1132,1130,1129,1131],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories","category-government-fraud","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-corrupt-attorney-general","tag-mark-shurtleff","tag-utah-attorney-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-M6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}