Utah is a big difference from DC. Crimes committed in DC must be prosecuted in DC. Huber will prosecute them all, going on a nationwide tour?
It doesn't matter that the NSA data is stored there. Uranium mined there, maybe. Mining the uranium for sale wasn't the actual crime. Taking bribes and so forth were the U1 crimes. I'd have to legal research that.
Child trafficking through Utah, yea that would work.
I don't think many of you understand that a grand jury does not decide guilt or innocence. They decide whether to indict someone. Indictments are great, but to prosecute, the venue requirement must be met. That's why the sealed indictments are not all listed in Utah. They are listed in the many federal jurisdictions across the U.S. This categorization is not meant to refer to where the charges originated, it shows where the criminal case is filed for future prosecution.
No shit
For it to be a federal crime, the data must have traveled across state lines, internationally to or from the U.S., or depending on the type of data transferred, even a U.S. citizen living in Ireland and transferring data to the UK, for example. The federal jurisdiction(s) is usually defaulted to the place where a defendant(s) was typing on his laptop. But it also could be where the server is located.
Yes it could be in Utah or wherever the defendant was when accessing the info, if that hypothetical were true.