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Utah Governor's 'Pal' Dupes Parole Officials
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1998, page 7
Michael Blake Jensen, an admitted con artist and pathological liar was on parole for the fourth time in early 1995. He was facing possible parole violation and felony theft, and Utah parole officer David Olive and his partner, Swen Heimburg, were prepared to send Jensen back to the joint. But …
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