reid, who said he had absolutely nothing to do with any of this. instead, he paid his down payment on his bribe to a middleman, a middleman who john swallow introduced him to. so, this guy pays the middleman, but wouldn't you know it, the investigation into his company goes ahead anyway, and the guy who paid the bribe was very, very angry about that. he thought he knew what he was paying for, and so, he demanded his money back, even warning the soon-to-be attorney general of utah that he was going to tell everybody about the bribe, including the allegation that john swallow allegedly took a cut of the bribe for himself. that allegation has been the most attention-grabbing of the whole utah attorney general saga. but it's been a pretty sordid thing overall. last week the meeting was about how the meeting between the soon-to-be attorney general and the guy he was allegedly helping arrange a bribe for happened at a krispy kreme donuts store, which people found an irresistible detail about this story, but the list of allegations against attorney general john swallow is a long