Utah’s tradition of financial crimes requires active federal policing, the editorial board writes.
Workers at a uranium mine near Moab in the 1950s. The demand for uranium, brought on by the Cold War, fostered a fair number of scam artists selling fake shares of Utah uranium mines — which prompted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to open its first office in Salt Lake City in 1954.
A strong local presence of the federal agency tasked with detecting and prosecuting that kind of crime would seem appropriate.It was so bad that the court ordered the agency — that’s us taxpayers — to pay the defendants $1.8 million in legal fees.Now, rather than refurbish the place with new lawyers and new oversight, the entire office is being shut down, another 20 employees reassigned to other stations, local cases to be managed from Denver.
Generally Utahns in D.C. can be counted upon to argue that all federal spending is bad. Though you seldom see them tearing up the check when it is for projects that help their constituents. Lee has been a reliable stooge for Trump, parroting his outrageous and false charges about the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others. Accusing Joe Biden of the kind of misuse of federal power that
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