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FLASHBACK 1994: Orrin Hatch, the penny-stock solution, and medical intrigue.
The therapy Hatch was actually getting dramatizes his tie to Utah's burgeoning "alternative medicine" industry and its various homeopathic and vitamin supplement cures. It also underscores his connection to the state's lingering, fraud-riddled penny-stock industry, the industry Hatch served and defended as an attorney before elected to office in 1976.
In commemoration of City Weekly's 40th anniversary, we are digging into our archives to celebrate. Each week, we FLASHBACK to a story or column from our past in honor of four decades of local alt-journalism. Whether the names and issues are familiar or new, we are grateful to have this unique newspaper to contain them all.
Title: The Senator and the Strange Cure Author: Lynn Packer Date: Jun. 8, 1994 This past spring, Orrin G. Hatch paid several visits to a doctor's office in the Holladay area of Salt Lake County.
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