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

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors dropped what remained of their watered down case against former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl, telling a judge Monday that his decision last week precluding certain 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.
Hirata said the limitation "