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Remember that free ad that Attorney General Mark Shurtleff wrote on official letterhead for a Utah County company that gave him $10,000 contribution?No problem, says Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert, who regulates any misuse of the state seal. Now, Shurtleff needs to find someone to give him the thumbs up for his other embarrassments:
- His office awarded a lucrative contract to the law firm Siegfried & Jensen, which gave Shurtleff $60,000 and hired his daughter.
- Shurtleff is a long-time supporter of the payday lending industry, which has forked over tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns.
- Shurtleff appeared at a Usana pep rally to wildly endorse the company, which happened to have given him $78,000.
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Mark Shurtleff's chutzpah continues to astound me. And we're supposed to feel better about his ethical conflicts because his fellow GOP pal Herbert ruled in his favor?
Also, I noticed in his written response to Herbert he takes a swipe at the Tribune reporter, trying to tar her in some way as unethical.
He did the same when City Weekly wrote about his ties to Siegfried & Jensen. Tried to discredit the reporter who found published documentation showing all the money he had taken from S&J, who hired his inexperienced daughter as a paralegal.
Unbelievable, really.
It amazes me that voters aren't at all concerned that the number one lawyer in the state gets most of his funding from the shadiest businesses in the state.
Glen, As a reporter I would think you would take the time to check your facts.
Sigfried and Jensen did not receive a contract.
The YouTube video of Mark Shurtleff praising Usana was originally taken, without my knowledge or consent, from a copyrighted report I produced in mid-2007 rebutting the anti-Usana accusations of ex-con Barry Minkow. The person who stole this video from my report (since removed at the request of Usana) and who then posted it on YouTube is a clinically delusional zealot who is obsessed with destroying Usana (although he claims to have never been an investor, employee or distributor) who assisted Minkow in his Usana attacks - which have now been removed from YouTube by court order (Minkow was paid over $200,000 by short sellers to produce the anti-Usana report, and earned $61,000 from his own short position).
If you would like more information about who is behind this YouTube video, his agenda, and what Mr. Shurtleff actually said during the 2004 Usana convention in its proper context, please contact me at MarketWave@cox.net. FYI: Mr. Shurtleff spoke for about 7 minutes, most of it generic and educational, from which I cherry-picked only those few comments that praised Usana specifically to prove statements made by Minkow were false (he claimed Shurtleff did not praise Usana during this speech, and a Usana rep who who claimed otherwise was lying). The fade ins-outs you see in the video are my edits. This YouTube video was never meant to me a promotional piece for Usana, nor was that the intent of Mr. Shurtleff's speech.
Len Clements
Founder & CEO
MarketWave, Inc.
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