Jury selection began Thursday in the federal criminal trial of Terry Diehl, a politically-connected developer and onetime Utah Transit Authority board member accused of lying in a bankruptcy case from 2012.
First indicted last April on 12 felony counts, Diehl will be tried on only on one charge, after prosecutors went back to a grand jury three times in the past 30 days to reduce the charges.
Diehl now faces a single count of making false statements, a charge that could land him in federal prison for five years if he is convicted.
Diehl entered a not guilty plea to the charge Thursday morning before U.