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The indictment alleges church leaders diverted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program proceeds from authorized beneficiaries to leaders of the FLDS Church for use by ineligible beneficiaries and for unapproved purposes. A large percentage of FLDS Church members living in the community known as Short Creek on the Utah-Arizona border receive SNAP benefits, amounting to millions of dollars per year.
Very informative article, from the perspective of an apostate - a former bodyguard to church leader Warren Jeffs - who left the FLDS a couple years ago. The Justice Dept. is suing two cities, one in Utah and one in Arizona, that are essentially run by the FLDS.
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Jessop and other witnesses have testified that church leaders -- and especially the prophet -- decide who will serve in City Hall and on the water and utilities boards, which young men will attend the police academy and go on to work on the shared local police force, the Colorado City Marshal's Office. They say the church also decides who will receive water hookups and other services -- and who will be ignored or evicted.
Former FLDS members also have described a place where the church controls where members live, what they wear and eat, whom they marry and who is family. If a man displeases his prophet or church elders, he faces banishment and is told to "repent from afar." His wives and children are reassigned to others.
Apply for benefits, buy food at store, buy plastic drum also available at store, ship it home.
You're saying anybody can walk into a welfare office and apply without showing proof of citizenship?
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