SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A once-prominent businessman has agreed not to challenge allegations that he made illegal campaign contributions to Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and retired Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. A pending consent judgment obtained by the Deseret News says Jeremy Johnson, 44, used straw donors to give $50,000 to Lee’s Senate campaign and $20,000 to Reid’s campaign during the 2009-2010 election cycle. Johnson agreed not to contest a list of Federal Election Commission allegations describing the process by which he made the campaign contributions. Several of the contributions involve former Utah Attorney General John Swallow.












