D.A. busted!
District Attorney Lohra Miller is learning that the devil is in the details — particularly when a private investigator is following you around with a video camera.Jeremiah Stettler of the Tribune confirmed a P.I.'s report that the increasingly beseiged D.A. operated a private law office for years without a business license. Miller, apparently having a bad week after Salt Lake City Weekly ran a cover story reviving allegations of wild parties and teen drinking at her gated-community home, snapped at Stettler:
"This is just ridiculous. My job is to prosecute criminals. That is what I was elected to do. By continuing to take the time to resolve these baseless allegations, you are taking away my ability to do my job."Miller's first term has been plagued with high staff turnover, crime statistic manipulation and the firing of a high-profile prosecutor that may come back to haunt her.
Daniel Medwed, a criminal-law professor at the University of Utah, gave Stettler the predictable, "duh" quote:
"If we have elected Lohra Miller to enforce the law, it is very reasonable for us to expect her to follow the law personally."
7 Comments:
Too bad people in South Salt Lake County couldn't put integrity above party in the last election.
Miller needs to change her party affiliation. Then the Tribune will stop hounding her.
Is it her party affiliation or the fact that she is a woman in Utah in a position that holds power? I'm ashamed of whoever it is that feels they must follow her around and harass her.
She screwed up. And she deserves to pay a political price for her mistake.
HOWEVER, take a look at the fact that the only thing that the PI uncovered that is truly newsworthy is that she didn't have a business license. Why the hell didn't the Trib discover this on their own? That's public info. The crap the PI found in the trash isn't what the public cares about: It's the lack of a license, and that's something the Trib's two-bit, piece of shit reporting crew could have come up with on their own with some sweat equity.
This once again proves that the Tribune reporting staff is not worth the shit that PI dug through in Miller's garbage.
Is this a case of do as I say, not as a I do. Politicians should, at the very least, hold themselves to the same standard they hold the public. At best, they should hold themselves to a higher standard.
It's important to note that our story (published two days before the Tribune account on our web site and in our print version yesterday)was not merely an account of parties and teen drinking at Lohra Miller's home, as the Crawler blog implies. The City Weekly story had information about the unlicensed law business, the unlicensed child care allegations, and all from the same documents and police reports the Trib tried to pass off as exclusively obtained.
Perhaps it means something only in our tight little media community but the Trib and everyone else got scooped on this story by CW and now they are scrambling to cover it. You folks should have attributed CW in your story--we always do the same for you.
Holly Mullen
Editor
City Weekly
Holly-
Congratulations to City Weekly. A PI handed you the story. Your desire for exclusivity because Ted "finished" his story first is pretty funny. But I applaud you for standing up for your rag.
However, the City Weekly remains my first choice for bird cage liner, mainly because it's free. Once again, congrats.
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