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Related: About this forumFinancial system similar to old Mormon practice is called money laundering in prosecution of polygam
Financial system similar to old Mormon practice is called money laundering in prosecution of polygamous Kingston Group membersBrigham Youngs united order sure didnt look like the financial dealings spelled out in the latest indictment against executives of Washakie Renewable Energy.
The court document describes how $6.2 million flowed into and then out of Washakie in 2013. Eventually, $4.5 million of that money made its way back to the company, the indictment alleges, but only after passing through other businesses associated with the polygamous Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group, as well as the sects incorporated church.
Prosecutors are calling the transactions money laundering, and the exchanges constitute five of the counts against brothers Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, Washakies chief officers.
The transactions, former sect members say, are also an example of how finances are held in the Kingston Group: Personal incomes or business revenues are immediately shared with church leaders or their designees.
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/02/03/financial-system-similar/
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Financial system similar to old Mormon practice is called money laundering in prosecution of polygam (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Feb 2019
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(58,754 posts)1. Glad they are getting these guys on something. They are one of the weirdest of the polygamous
groups.
They think they have royal blood, and they can't let it be defiled, so the girls are required to marry either a brother, cousin or uncle.
Seriously, these guys are disgusting.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. This will be interesting to follow.
These folks are the masters of Ponzi and MLM schemes. Waiting for certain Names of pop. Hatch,Lee,Chaffetz,Stewart,Bishop,and Mia Love. Who front ran the Federal Money gift? Follow the money.