The clash between Salt Lake County District Attorney Lohra Miller and escort service entrepreneur Steven Maese continues to play out — and get ever more tangled.

Maese, who faces trial on charges of exploiting a prostitute, money laundering and racketeering, says Miller targeted him to polish her resume for her election bid.

In a front-page story on the mess, Salt Lake City Weekly reports:

Maese was so convinced he was used as a pawn in the district attorney election, he has spent every waking moment since the raid plotting to bring Miller down.

As Miller likely has long suspected and as Maese acknowledges publicly in this story, he was the one who hired a private investigator to dig through Miller’s trash, secretly place a GPS tracking device on her husband’s car, videotape the exterior of the district attorney’s South Jordan home and turn the resulting investigation over to Salt Lake City news outlets earlier this year.

What the City Weekly doesn't reveal is that the primary investigator tailing party girl Miller was formerly one its staff writers, Shane Johnson, (he was CW's media critic, no less). The Deseret News reports that and more about the Miller-Maese Mess from public records it obtained under Utah's records access law.

The best part is that Maese, in a dazzling display of chutzpah, tries to come off in the CW story as the victim. If you remember, Maese's machinations dragged veteran county prosecutor Kent Morgan and Democratic political rising star Kelly Ann Booth under with him.

Not that they were innocents. Miller fired Morgan, alleging he was leaking sensitive information to Maese, Morgan's close political ally. And Booth was engaged to Maese and launching a nurse-training business together with him. (Nurse training?)

Even for an alleged pimp, Steve sure gets around.