Ex-attorney general candidate charged with bribery reaches plea deal

Frank Mylar answers questions during a media scrum after the attorney general GOP primary debate with Derek Brown and Rachel Terry at the KUED Studio, on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (Pool photo by Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune)

The bribery case against a Utah lawyer who ran for attorney general in 2024 will be dismissed in a year if he doesn’t run for public office again and takes on two legal cases without charging those clients, court records show.

The terms of his plea agreement also place Frank Mylar on probation and bar him from committing any offense beyond a minor traffic violation. On Jan. 2 in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court, Mylar entered a guilty plea to a reduced charge of bribery in elections, a class A misdemeanor. The plea be held in abeyance, court records state, meaning it will be dismissed in January 2027 if he follows the conditions…

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