Jeremy Johnson faces new Internet fraud charges

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal grand jury on Wednesday stacked dozens of new Internet fraud charges on a Utah businessman who just months ago rejected a plea bargain and complained he had paid a bribe to make the case go away.

Jeremy Johnson was hit with 85 fraud and money laundering counts in a new indictment that adds four business associates who weren’t previously defendants in the case.

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