SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An attorney for a California businessman who prosecutors allege led a nearly $500 million fraud scheme against the U.S. says his client is being scapegoated by polygamists. Lawyer Mark Gerago made the assertion Thursday during his trial opening statement, saying Lev Arslan Dermen was used […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a California businessman with ties to Turkey teamed up with a pair of Utah polygamists to defraud the U.S. out of nearly $500 million from a biodiesel fuel program. The attorney said Thursday during opening statements in Salt Lake City that the men […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Openings arguments are set for Wednesday in Utah for a California businessman who prosecutors accuse of being a key figure in a $511 million tax credit scheme. Prosecutors say the scheme was carried out by two executives of a Salt Lake City biodiesel company linked […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church’s struggle to distance itself from plural marriage, which has a history in the faith but has long been denounced. The victims’ connection to Mormonism […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seven Utah lawyers are being accused in a new complaint that they are violating rules of conduct because they are polygamists. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the complaint was filed by a woman named Melissa Ellis who used to belong to a northern Utah […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has ruled that former members of a polygamous sect have provided enough evidence for parts of a lawsuit to proceed against their previous lawyers. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the former members of the Fundamentalist Church […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal allowing people from polygamous communities to receive money from a crime-victims fund is passing another key step at the Legislature. The measure approved by a Senate panel on Wednesday allows victims of bigamy and related crimes to apply for assistance grants the Utah […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge on Monday sided with the U.S. Department of Labor against a company with ties to a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border, finding the company changed its name in a bid to defy an order to stop using child labor. U.S. District Judge […]
