St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson released from prison

UPDATE: Jeremy Johnson has been reunited with his family in St. George. Due to the coronavirus pandemic Jeremy has been confined to home , which he said is about a million times better than being in prison.

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A St. George businessman convicted of fraud more than two years ago will have to serve at least five more years in prison.  Defense attorney Richard Casper criticized the decision to resentence Jeremy Johnson after a hearing in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City yesterday.  Johnson had appealed the sentence he received in 2016, and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ordered his resentencing in April.  The judge in the case reduced Johnson's original sentence to seven-and-a-half years, saying Johnson appeared to be showing genuine remorse during yesterday's hearing