SALT LAKE CITY (UTAH)
Deseret News
October 6, 2017
By Pat Reavy
Utah has quietly withdrawn from the $110 million United Effort Plan trust of the Fundamentalist LDS Church.
Saying that the state’s “objectives have been achieved,” the Utah Attorney General’s Office on Friday confirmed that it had removed itself from the UEP Trust, which holds most of the property and homes in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.
The UEP Trust was created by the FLDS Church in 1942 on the concept of a “united order,” allowing followers to share in its assets. But the state of Utah seized control of it in 2005 amid allegations of mismanagement by FLDS Church leaders including Warren Jeffs, who was later convicted of child sex abuse and is serving a life prison sentence in Texas.
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