By Yaron Steinbuch. February 9, am Updated December 13, am. A Utah lawmaker who voted for tougher penalties for prostitution has resigned amid allegations that he used taxpayer dough to pay for hotel rooms to hook up with an online escort, according to reports. The DailyMail. House chief of staff Greg Hartley told the Associated Press that the married Stanard β who resigned Tuesday night β was reimbursed for two hotel stays while he was attending legislative meetings at the state capital.
I would need to have a way that I would know conclusively that that is the case. It was unclear if the House would be able to check whether Stanard used a state-issued cellphone to text Taylor, 39, because someone electronically wiped the phone, which no longer contains the messages.
The conservative pol, 43, who was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in , has three children with his wife, LeeAnne. Taylor β a mom of a year-old boy β claimed that Stanard first approached her on March 7, Only in town a little. Can do in or out. At hotel in downtown SL. They exchanged several messages, but Taylor was unavailable because her son was sick. He texted her again the following month but she was again unavailable, according to the outlet.
George because it is really culturally strict down there. Taylor said Stanard returned on a business trip later that summer and they met at the same hotel on Aug. My sitter is not able to make tonight. In March , Stanard voted in favor of a bill that saw the crime of soliciting a prostitute reclassified from a class B misdemeanor to a class A. They thought they knew him. I was surprised when I found out that he voted in favor of stricter laws.
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