Polygamous church leaders and members indicted, arrested...

[onager]

In a case that some say could destroy Utah's largest polygamous sect, federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced indictments against leaders and members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on charges related to food stamp fraud.

Lyle Jeffs, who has been running the FLDS for his imprisoned brother, is one of nearly a dozen people named in an indictment that was unsealed Tuesday while FBI agents and sheriffs deputies searched businesses in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., that are owned by members of the FLDS...

Wallace Jeffs said that targeting the church financially "is going to bring the church to its knees," although he thought it might take "a year or two."

"The church is basically just a money laundering criminal organization. The fact that they're actually targeting them financially ... is going to bring the church to its knees."

http://www.sltrib.com/news/3571913-155/fbi-searching-businesses-in-polygamous-towns

[longship]

1. Good! Kooks! nt

[trotsky]

2. Hey, that's lazy writing.

"The church is basically just a money laundering criminal organization."

That could be referring to any number of religious organizations.