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Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Still actively practicing polygamy more than a century after the mainstream Mormon Church abandoned the practice, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) is a white supremacist, homophobic, antigovernment, totalitarian cult
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...ntalist-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints
February 24, 2016
In a federal court hearing Wednesday at the 5th District Court in St. George, three of 11 FLDS church leaders -- who were charged and arrested for conspiracy to commit SNAP benefit fraud and money laundering -- pleaded not guilty.
FLDS people would apply for SNAP assistance, then the SNAP cards were either turned into FLDS leaders, or the food from SNAP was taken to FLDS food store houses.
Lyle Jeffs and others would then decide who the food was distributed among the community. In other cases, Huber said the cards were used for transactions in FLDS stores, then the government was billed for the food.
"Others in the FLDS were supposed to only take food from the FLDS storehouse, which rarely had meat. Aid workers in Short Creek in recent years have described a humanitarian crisis in which people do not have food."
"Steed said Lyle and his family did not undergo such hardships. If the storehouse didn't have what Lyle wanted to eat, ingredients would be purchased from stores, including grocery carts full of meat. One of his favorite meals was lasagna, garlic bread and salad, she said."
http://kutv.com/news/local/son-of-jailed-flds-leader-says-dad-was-doing-dirty-work-of-warren-jeffs
Two of the people who are on the run avoiding arrest are Warren and Lyle's brothers, Nephi and Isaac. Seth, another brother, was arrested on Wednesday too.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3576812-155/a-life-of-crime-in-a
Almost all the evidence has come directly or indirectly from people who have separated from Jeffs in the last 15 years. When law enforcement has seized church documents, they have relied on former FLDS members to explain to juries what they mean.
Their testimonies — the secular kind — have made the impenetrable vulnerable.
The witnesses have spanned the demographics of the FLDS. The latest crop — described in about two dozen police and FBI reports as well as previously undisclosed affidavits and depositions filed in U.S. District Court by prosecutors — include ex-wives, former drivers and cooks for the Jeffs family, and men who were once near the top of the FLDS hierarchy, albeit below the Jeffs family.
gsgs comment-
Was the story line of Craster's Keep influenced by Warren Jeff's habit of "excommunication" of male teenagers and the exile of the male teens ?
(Game of Thrones reference.)
Still actively practicing polygamy more than a century after the mainstream Mormon Church abandoned the practice, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) is a white supremacist, homophobic, antigovernment, totalitarian cult
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...ntalist-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints
February 24, 2016
In a federal court hearing Wednesday at the 5th District Court in St. George, three of 11 FLDS church leaders -- who were charged and arrested for conspiracy to commit SNAP benefit fraud and money laundering -- pleaded not guilty.
FLDS people would apply for SNAP assistance, then the SNAP cards were either turned into FLDS leaders, or the food from SNAP was taken to FLDS food store houses.
Lyle Jeffs and others would then decide who the food was distributed among the community. In other cases, Huber said the cards were used for transactions in FLDS stores, then the government was billed for the food.
"Others in the FLDS were supposed to only take food from the FLDS storehouse, which rarely had meat. Aid workers in Short Creek in recent years have described a humanitarian crisis in which people do not have food."
"Steed said Lyle and his family did not undergo such hardships. If the storehouse didn't have what Lyle wanted to eat, ingredients would be purchased from stores, including grocery carts full of meat. One of his favorite meals was lasagna, garlic bread and salad, she said."
http://kutv.com/news/local/son-of-jailed-flds-leader-says-dad-was-doing-dirty-work-of-warren-jeffs
Two of the people who are on the run avoiding arrest are Warren and Lyle's brothers, Nephi and Isaac. Seth, another brother, was arrested on Wednesday too.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3576812-155/a-life-of-crime-in-a
Almost all the evidence has come directly or indirectly from people who have separated from Jeffs in the last 15 years. When law enforcement has seized church documents, they have relied on former FLDS members to explain to juries what they mean.
Their testimonies — the secular kind — have made the impenetrable vulnerable.
The witnesses have spanned the demographics of the FLDS. The latest crop — described in about two dozen police and FBI reports as well as previously undisclosed affidavits and depositions filed in U.S. District Court by prosecutors — include ex-wives, former drivers and cooks for the Jeffs family, and men who were once near the top of the FLDS hierarchy, albeit below the Jeffs family.
gsgs comment-
Was the story line of Craster's Keep influenced by Warren Jeff's habit of "excommunication" of male teenagers and the exile of the male teens ?
(Game of Thrones reference.)
