SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Authorities say a high-profile Utah businessman who is serving a federal prison sentence for lying to banks is back in custody after a few hours of freedom when he was mistakenly released from the Salt Lake County jail.
Jeremy Johnson’s attorney, Mary Corporon, tells the Deseret News (https://bit.ly/2msvMpy ) her client turned himself in to U.S. marshals Tuesday morning.
Jail officials say paperwork didn’t show Johnson was a federal prison inmate, so he was released on Monday.
Corporon didn’t say much about what he did while he was free.
Johnson was jailed Feb. 15 for contempt-of-court after refusing to testify in the criminal case against former Utah Attorney General John Swallow.
Swallow was acquitted March 2 of bribery and evidence tampering charges in one of the highest-profile scandals in state history.
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Information from: Deseret News, https://www.deseretnews.com
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