Neither the Utah Attorney General's Office nor the Salt Lake County Attorney's Office are investigating state Rep. Sara Eubank, officials in both offices said Tuesday.
Palmer DePaulis, spokesman for Attorney General Jan Graham, said while state attorneys had heard reports about Eubank's statements concerning the validity of a letter she sent to the state Office of Victim Reparation a year ago, "we aren't doing anything on it as of now. It appears (Eubank) didn't defraud the state because she received no benefit from the letter."County Attorney Dave Yocom said his office is not conducting investigation of Eubank and had received no request from any law enforcement agency or state agency to do so.
Eubank, D-Holladay, is being sued by former employee Jacqueline Hedberg. Hedberg says Eubank fired her in December 1992 because Hedberg was raped. Hedberg cites a letter Eubank sent to the Office of Crime Victim Reparation, a letter Hedberg requested from Eubank and used to get state reparation funds. The letter does clearly say that Hedberg was terminated because "after the trauma Jacquie experienced from the rape incident, she could not continue to maintain the level of productivity required to handle this assignment."
But Eubank, in a press conference last week, said Hedberg wasn't fired because she couldn't handle her work after her rape, that she hadn't been handling the job as head of Employer 1's finance department for some months - and was fired for a history of lack of performance regardless of the rape.
DePaulis said the attorney general's office retains the option to investigate in the future.