Former Attorney General John Swallow hid contributions from pay day loan industry, detectives say

Former Attorney General John Swallow hid contributions from pay day loan industry, detectives say

SALT LAKE CITY — John Swallow failed to desire voters to see him because the loan that is payday, so their campaign developed a strategy to cover thousands of bucks in efforts he received through the industry.

“I have always been prepared and ready to help lead down on that,” he penned in a June 29, 2011, email to Kip Cashmore, a loan that is payday frontrunner in Utah.

Chief detective Jim Mintz told the Utah House Special Investigative Committee on that Swallow’s 2012 run for attorney general had three aspects — transparent, obscured and hidden friday.

“That form of movement of advantages straight back and forth with elected officials is pay-to-play,” Mintz stated. “In case it isn’t dirty, exactly why is it kept so key?”

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