In a really spectacular instance of state corruption, a Salt Lake City justice court judge – a woman who used to chair the board of the Utah Law Related Education Project — a woman who “handles repeat DUI offenders” — has been arrested as part of a large tri-state drug distribution network.
The case of Virginia Bauskett Ward is truly remarkable, truly a piece of remarkable evidence — from one of our most self-righteous states — that the profoundly destructive opioid trade is beginning to embed itself in the country’s institutions.