Rolly: The two faces of Judge Dee Benson

Rolly: The two faces of Judge Dee Benson

By paul rolly
Tribune Columnist

Published Feb 2, 2012 04:01PM MDT

When Jon Huntsman still was in the Republican presidential race, his campaign ran a TV ad featuring a wind-up toy monkey that did back flips to dramatize Mitt Romney’s notorious flip-flopping on major issues.
That flip-flopping monkey could have a cousin named Judge Dee Benson.
Benson, a U.S. District Judge for Utah, caught my attention once again this week when he sentenced former This Is the Place Heritage Park director Matthew Dahl to six months in prison for stealing $321,000 in park funds. ...

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