Republican Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings confirmed Tuesday that he is investigating the most powerful Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, based on evidence he has come across in prosecuting former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.
That evidence likely is related to money that flowed in and out of the now-defunct SunFirst Bank in St. George from the processing of payments to online-poker companies in late 2009 to 2010 by embattled businessman Jeremy Johnson and partners.
Payments allegedly were made to Reid, then the Senate's majority leader, to win his support in legalizing online poker.
"We are looking into allegations related to Senator Reid [and others]," Rawlings said in a statement.
That statement is the most direct the Davis County prosecutor has been about the scope of his probe, though he has left clues in court documents pointing to Reid and others, including federal prosecutors, who, in 2013, backed off from investigations of Shurtleff and his successor, former Attorney General John Swallow. READ MORE
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