A Davis County general contracting company once accused of labor trafficking only to have the charges dismissed more than a year later is now suing a former Utah attorney general and members of his team for $1 billion for alleged abuse of power.
Rubicon Contracting LLC and its owners, Rudy Larsen and Jena Larsen, on Tuesday announced a federal complaint was filed against former Attorney General Sean Reyes; Leo Lucey, Reyes’ chief of the criminal investigations division; investigator Michael Adam Jeter; and deputy attorney general Kaytlin Virginia Beckett, who was the lead prosecutor in the case.
The lawsuit claims the team “conspired to manufacture bogus criminal charges to falsely inflate the public perception of the severity of human trafficking in Utah. Why? To try and justify the exi

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