GUILTY UT - Top FLDS leaders arrested in Utah food-stamp fraud, Feb 2016

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Fugitive FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs is in default in child labor case

A federal judge has found fugitive polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs in default in a child labor case.

In an order entered in U.S. District Court on Monday night, Magistrate Judge Jill Parrish found Jeffs and the Fundamentalist LDS Church defaulted in the case.

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The decision could leave Jeffs and the Hildale-based polygamous church on the hook for millions.

 

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Lyle Jeffs, fugitive polygamist, captured in South Dakota after almost a year on the run

Lyle Jeffs, who was among 11 members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints indicted in what prosecutors have called a conspiracy to defraud a federal food stamp program, was captured Wednesday night in South Dakota after nearly a year on the lam.

A trip to a pawn shop led to his arrest.

Bishop Lyle Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was living out of his car for two weeks before his arrest in Yankton, South Dakota, an FBI official said Thursday.

Jeffs, who had been on the run from authorities for almost a year, did not resist arrest late Wednesday and is being held in Minnehaha County Jail in South Dakota. He appeared in court Thursday afternoon and didn't answer reporters' questions as he was brought in.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...fbi-arrests-flds-leader-lyle-jeffs/index.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

Lyle Jeffs, 57, a high-ranking polygamous sect leader, is being sentenced today in federal court in a food-stamp fraud and escape case. Jeffs pleaded guilty to two felony counts in an agreement that also called for him to pay $1 million in restitution. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart is expected to sentence Jeffs. He is the same judge who reversed an earlier ruling and released Jeffs from jail to home confinement in 2016 while he was awaiting trial in the food-stamp fraud case.

http://kutv.com/live/polygamous-leader-lyle-jeffs-to-be-sentenced-in-federal-court

 

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[JerseyGirl]

Jeffs was sentenced to nearly five years in prison (57 months). 45 months for fraud and 12 months for fleeing.

http://www.good4utah.com/news/lyle-jeffs-soon-headed-to-prison/880153939