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Posted: 9:32 PM- The Utah Attorney General's Office will investigate allegations that first-year District Attorney Lohra Miller has allowed raucous late-night parties and teen drinking at her South Jordan home.
The inquiry comes not because the attorney general has evidence of wrongdoing, but because Miller requested the probe.
Weary of neighbors' allegations, Salt Lake County's Republican district attorney confirmed Monday that she had turned the state's law enforcement arm on her own home.
Two neighbors and an anonymous letter writer have accused Miller of hosting disruptive parties, allowing underage drinking and running an unlicensed day care - allegations circulated by e-mail to major Salt Lake Valley news media outlets under the heading "Please Read! Please Help!"
"The investigation at the A.G.'s Office is at my instigation because I want to be above reproach," Miller said. "I know there is nothing to hide. There is nothing there."
Attorney general spokesman Paul Murphy - whose boss, Mark Shurtleff, endorsed Miller's candidacy - said the district attorney indeed called for the investigation.
"We will do an inquiry," he said. "We have no idea whether the allegations are credible."
The discord within the district attorney's South Jordan neighborhood has much to do with child care, which Miller acknowledges her family provides for an employee at her husband's law office.
Two neighbors have filed complaints accusing Miller of wrongfully operating a day care, according to Michael Johnson, chief executive officer of FCS Community Management, which oversees the subdivision's homeowners association.
The neighborhood's rules prohibit any home-based business that generates traffic from employees or customers.
Miller insists the operation is legal. It consists of just three children, she said: her nanny's two children and one from her husband's work.
"How do you generate traffic if you have just one person?" she asked.
Neighbors are equally adamant that the day care doesn't belong, Johnson said.
The association has not yet reached a decision on whether Miller has violated the subdivision's rules, but Johnson said neighbors already have retained attorneys.
The other allegations - underage drinking and loud late-night parties - remain fuzzy.
Neighbor Gary Zielinski said door slamming and fights have startled him awake at night. He has found fast-food wrappers, cigarette butts and beer and whiskey bottles littering the cul-de-sac, according to The Associated Press.
"I've not seen anything illegal or illicit, but I tend to vote Democrat now," fellow neighbor Steve Trayner told the Deseret Morning News after recounting a fight that Miller's husband broke up.
South Jordan police Lt. Dan Starks said his office has received no such complaints. The department has received only two calls involving Miller - the first in September 2006 when someone stole her campaign signs, the second in April 2007 when a vandal spray-painted obscenities on the pavement in front of her home.
Police reported a third incident in April 2007 in which several youngsters reportedly were playing in the street, obstructing traffic and provoking motorists. But a patrol found no indication that Miller's residence was involved, according to Starks.
"Some of the things [alleged] were straight up not seen there," he said. "Nobody is calling us and telling us about fights, parties and loud disturbances. We don't have a single call coming into our station like that."
South Jordan police say they have beefed up patrols around Miller's residence since she took office last January - routing extra officers past her home at least 16 times - but have found no signs of civil disturbances or criminal activity.
Miller responded simply that she's "fed up" with the allegations and hopes the attorney general can put the "lies" to rest.
"They are not just unfounded allegations," she said, "they are untrue."
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