Fraud Probe in Polygamous Town Aided by Surveillance Video

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Fraud Probe in Polygamous Town Aided by Surveillance Video

By BRADY MCCOMBS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY — Apr 27, 2016, 1:25 PM ET

Investigators took aerial videos and installed surveillance cameras at a polygamous town's general store to gather evidence in a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud case, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.

The FBI got permission from a judge and placed a couple of cameras on poles outside the store for about a year, and a camera inside the store for about 40 days, prosecutor Robert Lund said in a Salt Lake City courtroom.

Investigators used planes to take videos of people making bulk purchases at the Meadowayne Dairy Store and taking the items to a community storehouse instead of their homes, he said.

The disclosure provided new insight into how authorities conducted the multiyear investigation that led to 11 people being accused in February of diverting at least $12 million worth of federal benefits. It marked one of the biggest crackdowns on a group run by imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.

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[procon]

1. Grifters.

Just last month, in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court today, the justices ruled to revoke the Church of Scientology's tax-exempt status because... wait for it... the group was a “criminal operation with a sole purpose of making money”.

I says, apply the same laws to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and every other religious front that is more into greed than god.

[Archae]

3. The story about the Scientologists came from a satire site.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7783000

[malaise]

2. Food Stamp fraud???

Where are 'the blacks' here?

This is a criminal gang led by pedophiles - this is not 'a group'.