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Posted February 23, 2016 - 2:38pm
Updated February 23, 2016 - 4:16pm
By Dave Hawkins
Special to the Las Vegas Review-Journal
Eleven followers of jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, including members of the sect's leadership, have been arrested on charges of food stamp fraud and money laundering.
A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of illegally diverting food stamps from legitimate recipients and converting them to cash for unauthorized purchases, including an expensive pickup and a tractor.
Those arrested Tuesday included Lyle Steed Jeffs of Hildale, Utah, the 56-year-old who is said to be leading the polygamous sect while his brother and self-described prophet serves a life sentence in a Texas prison for sex offenses involving underage girls.
Another of Warren Jeffs' brothers, Seth Steed Jeffs, was arrested at the home of an FLDS congregation in South Dakota ...
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Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)outta my foodstamps, medicare and social security!
CommonSenseDemocrat
(377 posts)WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)it appears so.