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Show A-6 Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 19-21, 2019 The Park Record Utah man pleads not guilty to threatening US lawmakers VOTED PARK CITY’S BEST STEAK HOUSE 6 YEARS IN A ROW! Suspect complained about Dems, says prosecution BRADY MCCOMBS Associated Press JOIN US ON OUR PATIO! Enjoy 2 for 1 Entrees thru 06/30/19 2-4-1 NOT valid Fridays or Saturdays in July & August Closed Mondays and Tuesdays 840 Main Street, Park City 435.655.9739 • primeparkcity.com Get all the latest Park Record updates. SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of threatening to kill a member of Congress during thousands of phone calls to the U.S. Capitol. Scott Brian Haven, 54, entered his plea to one count of interstate transmission of threats to injure during an arraignment in a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City. He is being held without bail after a judge previously determined he was a danger to the community. His attorney Mark Moffat said that label doesn’t seem to fit with Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — A political action committee run by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s former campaign manager is under investigation after raising $4.8 million but never donating to candidates or PARK CITY U tah $7 Entr , , 21 1951 oodbin ll try p cee 5:30 b to comment or give her name outside court. He was arrested June 4 in his hometown of Kaysville, about 20 miles north of Salt Lake City. Prosecutors accuse Haven of making more than 2,000 phone calls to Washington offices of unnamed U.S. representatives and senators from 2017-2019. They say Haven often complained about Democrats trying to destroy Donald Trump’s presidency and threatened to harm politicians. In one call last month, he called the office of an unnamed U.S. representative and purported to be standing right behind him and ready to “shoot him in the head” because “the Russians want him taken out because he is trying to remove a duly elected President,” according to charging documents unsealed Wednesday. In other calls, Haven alluded to him and other gun owners tak- ing matters into their own hands, charging documents show. He told a staffer for an unnamed senator in September 2018 that there were “far more Second Amendment people than whiny, crying liberals,” the documents said. He called back the next month to the same office and said, “We will exercise our Second Amendment rights to address Democrat mobs that threaten conservatives,” according to the documents. Haven threatened to cut off the heads of two senators in another call and in yet another identified himself as Hitler and yelled repeatedly he would “put a bullet” in the head of the senator, the documents said. The names and political affiliations of the lawmakers who were threatened are not included in the charging documents. Biggest PAC in state under scrutiny cycle Re id the man he has met or how Haven’s wife describes him. Moffat said Haven is a soft-spoken, mild-mannered insurance broker who has lived a crime-free life. Moffat said he’s trying to determine if Haven has any mental health issues or was going through some stressful life situation. “There’s something gone on and we’re going to try and figure out: Did he make the calls and if he did, what was going on his life? Why were the calls made?” State online records indicate he has no criminal history. Haven spoke softly to answer the judge’s questions about whether he understood the proceedings, his hands and feet shackled. As a bailiff escorted Haven out of the courtroom a woman in the gallery said to him, “I love you,” and he repeated those words to her. She declined 9:00 , Park ef Glass Recyclin 6.21.19 causes. The PAC called “Americans for an Informed Electorate” that was co-founded by Joe Demma has used most of the money it’s raised since 2016 on nonscientific polls and employee salaries, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Demma said the PAC is “well-intended” and qualifies as a PAC because of the surveys it does and shares. That puts it in accordance with state law that requires PACS be formed for “political purposes,” he said. Demma said he stepped away from daily operations of the PAC two years ago to focus on his full-time job as vice president of Mountainland Technical College, a state funded institute. But Demma and his wife are still listed as directors of a related corporation, which Demma said is a technical error. Demma ran Herbert’s 2010 campaign and was his chief of staff before that when Herbert, a Republican, was lieutenant governor. A statement from Herbert’s office said he had no knowledge of the PAC and pointed out that Demma left the lieutenant governor’s office 10 years ago. “The governor is tremendously disappointed to learn of the unethical conduct carried out by this organization, and emphasizes the importance of ethical behavior in all campaign-related matters,” the statement said. The $1.8 million raised in 2018 was more than any other PAC in Utah, the newspaper’s analysis found. The Utah Association of Realtors was second at $1.2 million. Herbert’s Governor’s Leadership PAC was No. 3 at $621,700. Of the $4.8 million raised since 2016, about $800,000 went to salaries, consulting fees, health insurance, travel, entertainment, cellphones and car maintenance. Demma was paid $77,500 in 2017 for “consulting fees.” That was in addition to the $75,000 in compensation (about $57,000 in salary and $18,000 in benefits) he earned as public relations director at Mountainland Technical College. He might have received even more money but the PAC didn’t specify how much of the $206,000 listed only for general staff salaries went to Demma and others. Wendell Keith, 69, of Winter Springs, Florida was among the donors who complained to a website called ScamFinance.com that publishes people’s reports of online scams. Keith said he agreed to one $60 donation and was charged twice. Norma Dorfner, 83, of Columbus, Ohio, said she gave six donations totaling $385 because the group was pushing conservative Republican values she supported. Asked if she knew the PAC never donated to candidates or causes, Dorfner said, “Absolutely not.” PAC co-founder Brett Payne rejected the “scam” label and said the compensation for employees is fair and in line with nonprofits. Payne thinks the “scam” label is linked to the fact that the group waited too long to create a website after the PAC was created, leading people to have suspicions when they couldn’t find it. 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