Utah Withholding Payment In Polygamy Trust Dispute
Associated Press

June 26, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY—
The Utah Attorney General's office is withholding $192,000 in payments to a court-appointed accountant who is in charge of a land trust once controlled by jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. Members of Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints asked Utah to delay transferring the money after learning that accountant Bruce Wisan sold 565 head of cattle from a church farm.

Members of the church were court-ordered to make the payment of occupancy fees on homes in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. The homes are held in the United Effort Plan Trust, an arm of the FLDS church. The Utah courts seized the land trust and put Wisan in control in 2005. The farm and its assets are part of ongoing settlement negotiations surrounding how to divvy up the land contained in the trust.
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