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- News, City Weekly REWIND January 13, 2025
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FLASHBACK 1994: Orrin Hatch, the penny-stock solution, and medical intrigue.
The Senator and the Strange Cure
- The therapy Hatch was actually getting dramatizes his tie to Utah's burgeoning "alternative medicine" industry and its various homeopathic and vitamin supplement cures. It also underscores his connection to the state's lingering, fraud-riddled penny-stock industry, the industry Hatch served and defended as an attorney before elected to office in 1976.
- News, City Weekly REWIND October 14, 2024
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FLASHBACK 1993: Lynn Packer sits down with Mayor Deedee Corradini for a long-awaited interview
Deedee Breaks Her Silence
- For the first time since Private Eye Weekly launched a series of stories about Corradini's involvement in Bonneville Pacific, Corradini granted this paper an interview. Friday morning, after the dust was settling on her announcement of the day before, Corradini offered some answers to questions about the settlement itself, still declining to talk about broader, Bonneville Pacific issues.
- News, November 13, 2003
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The Tom & Dave Show
How the Olympic bid scandal flunked Hollywood.
- Maybe the story needed a happy ending, just like those in the made-for-television movies Saving Jessica Lynch and The Elizabeth Smart Story. But two Hollywood docudramas about the Utah Olympic scandal got axed after network executives reviewed their storylines....
- News, October 17, 2002
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Patriot Games Part II
How constitutionalists played an integral role in one of Utah’s largest spates of securities fraud.
- EDITOR’S NOTE: Lynn Packer, who freelances for City Weekly, is a trial consultant and has worked on several Utah cases, among them Caldera v. Microsoft and Jensen v. KTVX. Packer specialized in white-collar fraud stories, broke the Afco fraud story...
- News, October 10, 2002
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Mr. Big: Part II
Identifying the ringleader of Utah’s largest-ever mortgage fraud.
- EDITOR’S NOTE: Lynn Packer, who freelances for City Weekly, is a trial consultant and has worked on several Utah cases, among them Caldera v. Microsoft, Lantec v. Novel, Jensen v. KTVX and State v. Weitzel. As a television reporter, Packer specialized...
- News, July 25, 2002
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Kicking the Dailies’ Butts
City Weekly: 10 Years Later …
- It’s about information. Competitive news organizations are supposed to provide readers, viewers and listeners with comprehensive coverage of their community. Based on American journalism tradition, they’re also supposed to serve as watchdogs...
- News, January 24, 2002
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Olympic Poker: Part II
Did Sen. Orrin hatch and his LDS mission friend Judge David Sam foil the government’s case in the Olympic Bid Scandal?
- You can just imagine how Mark Shurtleff felt as he was thrust into the ranks of the B Team—by the governor, no less. Wouldn’t you know, it’s your friends who hurt you most?“They have this attitude about this office because of...
- News, January 17, 2002
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Olympic Poker, Part I
Why won’t the government fold its case against Welch and Johnson?
- It was like the last straw for City Councilwoman Nancy Saxton, she was so dang miffed. Some newspaper reporter had called her about the pending appointment of Salt Lake City’s Redevelopment Agency Director. What did the redevelopment board (City...
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FLASHBACK 1994: Orrin Hatch, the penny-stock solution, and medical intrigue.
The Senator and the Strange Cure
January 13, 2025
