28-03-2018 01:01 via deseretnews.com

Ex Utah A.G. John Swallow asks judge to toss FEC complaint against him

SALT LAKE CITY — John Swallow wants a federal judge to not only dismiss the Federal Election Commission complaint against him but invalidate the campaign finance rule he allegedly violated.Allen Dickerson, a lawyer for the former Utah attorney general, argued Tuesday in U.S. District Court that the process the FEC used to come up with the regulation was "deeply flawed."The FEC alleges that now-imprisoned St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson used "straw" donors to give $100,000 to former U
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