Feds abruptly drop final charge against ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors abruptly dropped what remained of their watered down criminal charges against former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl, telling a judge Monday that his decision precluding key evidence "gutted" the government's case.
"That order flipped the United States' case on its head from a reasonable likelihood of success to a reasonable likelihood of failure," assistant U.S. attorney Mark Hirata told U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups.
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