Flds - Follow The Money

[mollymalone]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/pol...gon/index.html

A court affidavit signed by a man whose father was the president of Western Precision makes similar allegations.
During 2003, the amount being sent to the storehouse and the FLDS was around $100,000 per month,"
John Nielsen said in the October 26, 2005, affidavit. "I have personal knowledge that checks sent to the FLDS
Church/Warren Jeffs by [Western Precision] are payable to the FLDS Church and/or Warren Jeffs."

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/pol...gon/index.html

Private investigator Sam Brower, who monitors the sect, said money earned through business dealings
with the U.S. government was used to build Jeffs' compounds across the country, including the one
recentlyraided in Eldorado, Texas. Brower says dozens of companies tied to FLDS are working on
contracts with federal or local governments. The Pentagon would confirm only it had contracts with three.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/pol...gon/index.html

The companies have not been charged with wrongdoing. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell emphasized
that point."The Department of Defense awards contracts on the basis of who can most effectively meet
our requirements for supplies or services at the most reasonable cost to the taxpayer," he said.
"We do not consider religious affiliation or marital status when selecting vendors, but illegal activity is
certainly cause for termination of a contract and perhaps even debarment, which could prevent a
contractor from doing business with department ever again."

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A313592
From government construction sites like one at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve to one at the Clark County Wetlands Park,
a river is running. But it's not water that flows from these places. It's money, taxpayers' money.

And a whole lot of it is going to JNJ Engineering. The company has nearly $10.5 million in government contracts
with the City, County and Water District. Spokesperson J.C. Davis says $9.6 million of that is with the Water District
alone. "They keep getting contracts because they keep bidding on contracts."

JNJ Engineering's Jacob Jessop and his family live in a million-dollar home on Gilbert Lane in northwest Las Vegas
and another one in Hildale, Utah.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A313592
Nevada law requires government to award its contracts to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
JNJ often undercuts the next lowest bidder by tens or hundreds of thousands, and their bids are also often hundreds of
thousands less than the government engineer's own estimate.

Flora Jessop says there's a reason for that. "A lot of what happens in these corporations is they use their children as the
labor force and so they don't have to pay wages. And each one of those boys, while collecting a paycheck, never see
that paycheck. That money is sent directly to the prophet." "I used to work for construction companies, too, and we'd
get paid one check, and then we'd turn another check over to them after we'd sign it back over to them," said Isaac.
"So, their records showed like it should be even though that's not how it was."

 

[Floh]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/polygamy.pentagon/index.html

The U.S. government paid more than $1.7 million in defense contracts over the last decade to companies owned by leaders
of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect, with tens of thousands allegedly winding its way back to Jeffs and his church.

CNN has learned that between 1998 and 2007, the United States Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency purchased more than
$1.7 million worth of airplane parts from three companies owned by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, which practices polygamy.

Those companies are Utah Tool and Die, Western Precision and NewEra Manufacturing. Today, the companies all operate under
the name NewEra Manufacturing, a company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that says it supplies precision components
"for the aerospace, military, medical, recreational and other commercial entities."

"It was my understanding that Western Precision was paying roughly $50,000 a week into the coffers of the church,"
former sect member Richard Holm said. "It would have been close to $200,000 a month." Holm said he helped build
Western Precision.

Well, now. from what we've so far learned it's almost certain children were a part of production of goods for the nation and this is surely wrong.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A313592

Neither the Water District, nor the County, nor the City, have any mechanism in place to check on contract compliance.
They don't require employee lists, dates of birth, or social security numbers, so they don't know whether proper wages
are being paid, and they don't know how old the workers are. The only way that would be checked out is if someone
complained to the Labor Department.

That's something Flora Jessop says will likely never happen because of the oppressive culture that FLDS members grow up in.
"Every one of the people working for JNJ Engineering were born into this group. They own them."

Paragon Contractors Corporation, another Hildale, Utah FLDS construction company, was fined more than $10,000 by
the U.S. Department of Labor for employing minors aged 12, 13 and 15, and failing to pay them for their work.

 

[Floh]

Floh, the 10,000 members vote as their prophet or leaders want them to. It's been rumored that they've voted for Orrin Hatch,
who has claimed to have friends in Hilldale and has not seen any abuse.. If I can find that article again I will post it.

Looking forward to it. i remember way back when making a post about Orrin's comments, but b*gg*red if i can find it now! :crazy:

 

[mollymalone]

Well, now. from what we've so far learned it's almost certain children were a part of production of goods for the nation and this is surely wrong.

I think I remember reading where one of the young girls who was being difficult was sent to work in this company or one other, but the boys were definitely used in the construction and other heavy industries.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.eldoradosuccess.com/YFZ%20Pages/YFZ022405a.html

While the Utah legal action won’t immediately affect Jeffs’ far-flung holdings in Colorado and Texas, the implication is clear.
If new trustees are appointed to head the UEP Trust, efforts will soon follow to prove that UEP assets were diverted to
purchase property near Mancos, CO and here in Schleicher County where Jeffs’ followers are busy constructing a new
community, complete with a massive temple, on the YFZ Ranch.

In order to get such proof, a financial forensic specialist would be needed and sources close to the attorneys in this case
tell the Success that it is likely that Judge Roth will be encouraged to appoint just such an expert to follow the complex
money trail.

Money is power and the UEP Trust reportedly has plenty of it — as much as $120 million by some accounts.
The trust also controls almost all land and housing in and around Colorado City/Hildale, giving Jeffs incredible power
of the day-to-day lives an estimated 8,000 FLDS members who live there.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.ktar.com/?sid=803901&nid=6
``When they began to basically clamp down on this group for its illegal activities, it had accumulated assets in excess of $200-million dollars," he said. ``So this was a group that grew very rich, very powerful, often through taxpayers' money."

 

[mollymalone]

Molly says: In 2000, there was a huge bust up within the FLDS which caused the collapse of the PUBLIC school system
in Colorado City, AZ. The school district was dominated by those loyal to Warren Jeffs and key positions within the
school district were filled by Flds members. Jeffs ordered that the children and teachers be withdrawn from the school
and they did. Those loyal to him were labeled "First ward" and those opposed "Second ward."


60% of all incoming money was spent outside the classroom.
http://www.ktar.com/?sid=803901&nid=6

By the start of the 2001 school year, the district's enrollment fell from 950 students to 300. The state of Arizona has a kind of
"stop-loss" policy for public schools. Commonly known as the "rapid decline" program, it was designed to help struggling rural
schools when military redeployment or severe economic downturn caused a sharp drop in enrollment. The program continues
to fund such schools at previous enrollment levels, allowing the district to gradually ease into a smaller budget.

The first-ward-dominated school board seized on this program, funnelling the extra money to Jeff's followers.
First ward teachers may have resigned, but the support staff roster was packed with loyal first ward janitors,
secretaries and bus drivers- in fact, the student-to-staff ratio was 3 to1. Student-to-staff ratios outside the district
averaged 26 to 1. First ward bus drivers were soon earning $30,000 per year while remaining second ward teachers
started at $20,000. 60% of all incoming money was spent outside the classroom. Loyal Jeffs followers drove
district-owned Ford Excursions and Chevy Suburbans. District administrators travelled and dined in restaurants
using school funds.

Because most of the land in the Twin Cities area belonged to the United Effort Plan, it had never been traded on the open
market. This made land values very difficult to assess for tax purposes. This in turn allowed District Administrators to claim
an impoverished tax base for their school system. Even more state money rolled in. Over time, using a complex series
of lease transactions, the FLDS church siphoned off these public monies to fund a system of private schools/religious
academiesteaching FLDS doctrine.

 

[Floh]

Molly says: In 2000, there was a huge bust up within the FLDS which caused the collapse of the PUBLIC school system
in Colorado City, AZ. The school district was dominated by those loyal to Warren Jeffs and key positions within the school district were filled by Flds members. Jeffs ordered that the children and teachers be withdrawn from the school and they did. Those loyal
to him were labeled "First ward" and those opposed "Second ward."


60% of all incoming money was spent outside the classroom.
http://www.ktar.com/?sid=803901&nid=6

By the start of the 2001 school year, the district's enrollment fell from 950 students to 300. The state of Arizona has a kind of "stop-
loss" policy for public schools. Commonly known as the "rapid decline" program, it was designed to help struggling rural schools when military redeployment or severe economic downturn caused a sharp drop in enrollment. The program continues to fund such schools at previous enrollment levels, allowing the district to gradually ease into a smaller budget.

The first-ward-dominated school board seized on this program, funnelling the extra money to Jeff's followers. First ward teachers may have resigned, but the support staff roster was packed with loyal first ward janitors, secretaries and bus drivers- in fact, the student-to-staff ratio was 3 to1. Student-to-staff ratios outside the district averaged 26 to 1. First ward bus drivers were soon earning $30,000 per year while remaining second ward teachers started at $20,000. 60% of all incoming money was spent outside the classroom. Loyal Jeffs followers drove district-owned Ford Excursions and Chevy Suburbans. District administrators travelled and dined in restaurants using school funds.

Because most of the land in the Twin Cities area belonged to the United Effort Plan, it had never been traded on the open market. This made land values very difficult to assess for tax purposes. This in turn allowed District Administrators to claim an impoverished tax base for their school system. Even more state money rolled in.

Over time, using a complex series of lease transactions, the FLDS church siphoned off these public monies to fund a system of private schools/religious academiesteaching FLDS doctrine.

Well the money surely didn't go towards Warren Jeffs' style of dress — what has he been spending it on?

 

[mollymalone]

Well the money surely didn't go towards Warren Jeffs' style of dress — what has he been spending it on?

Jets, restaurants, wigs... computer and electronic surveillance equipment .. you name it, just look at the list in court records of items recovered from the ranch.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.ktar.com/?sid=803901&nid=6

5% of the land in the Twin Cities area was owned by the United Effort Plan Trust, the financial arm of the FLDS church. Families lived
as tenants in homes assigned to them by FLDS leaders. They worked in businesses built by labor 'donated' to the FLDS church.

Jeffs himself lived in a walled compound in Hildale- until he became a fugitive.
http://www.freewillblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5712/
photo of jeffs home in colorado city

The assets of this empire included a 55,000 square foot factory, valued at $6 million, that produced precision parts for airlines and defense contractors, a $220,000 Cessna 210 airplane and private airport and numerous private schools. All were property of the FLDS church.

 

[mollymalone]

http://humaniststudies.org/enews/?article=1&id=243

Of course, contributions to the beast's existence are anathema, so paying one's taxes is a grave sin. Any FLDS member
caught paying property taxes faces excommunication. This has resulted in the nonpayment of more than $1 million
in property taxes of individual FLDS property owners living in Colorado City.

 

[Floh]

Jeffs himself lived in a walled compound in Hildale- until he became a fugitive.
http://www.freewillblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5712/
photo of jeffs home in colorado city

The assets of this empire included a 55,000 square foot factory, valued at $6 million, that produced precision parts for airlines and defense contractors, a $220,000 Cessna 210 airplane and private airport and numerous private schools. All were property of the FLDS church.

OMG!

what a link!

 

[mollymalone]

http://humaniststudies.org/enews/?article=1&id=243

The beast can be bled in other ways. The government allows benefits to be paid to child-care providers who are related to their charges, so one wife can be paid for taking care of another wife's children. Both Colorado City and Hildale have received enormous sums for city projects that benefit mostly FLDS members. Colorado City received $2.8 million for an airport that serves only FLDS members.

 

[mollymalone]

OMG!

what a link!

I'm sorta like Fox, I'll post the link.. you decide. LOL

 

[Floh]

http://humaniststudies.org/enews/?article=1&id=243

The beast can be bled in other ways. The government allows benefits to be paid to child-care providers who are related to their charges, so one wife can be paid for taking care of another wife's children. Both Colorado City and Hildale have received enormous sums for city projects that benefit mostly FLDS members. Colorado City received $2.8 million for an airport that serves only FLDS members.

All this information about the money is astounding — truly so!