- Rubicon Contracting accuses former Utah AG Sean Reyes of fabricating trafficking charges.
- The company filed a $1 billion lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution and reputation damage.
- Reyes argues for dismissal citing prosecutorial immunity; Rubicon disputes immunity, claiming evidence fabrication.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Davis County general contracting company once accused of labor trafficking says the former Utah attorney general and his staff “did not investigate a crime. They invented one.”
“Defendant Sean Reyes was supposed to be Utah’s top law enforcement officer. Instead, he ran the Utah Attorney General’s Office like a personal propaganda machine, manufacturing human trafficking charges against innocent people so he could hold press conferences, secure millions in federal and state funding, and distract the public from his increasingly toxic alliance with Tim Ballard, a man under criminal investigation for the very conduct Reyes accused plaintiffs of committing,” Rubicon Contracting LLC and its owners, Rudy Larsen and Jena Larsen said in a court fling Wednesday.
“The irony would be poetic if the consequences for the plaintiffs were not so devastating.”…