A federal judge has tossed former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's $80 million lawsuit on Friday, finding those who investigated and charged him with public corruption six years ago can't being sued for doing their jobs.
Shurtleff was at the center of one of Utah’s most sweeping political scandals, though in 2016, all criminal charges against him were dismissed.
He accepted a $600,000 settlement with the state over the legal fees he accrued while fighting the charges. But that didn’t end the litigation that Shurtleff filed in federal court against Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill and other various state and federal law enforcement agencies that investigated him and his successor, John Swallow, on corruption-related allegations.