Assets of Polygamous FLDS Sect Still An Issue

The Associated Press reports that a hearing in a Utah state court yesterday revealed new complexities in the court's attempt to supervise the trust that holds assets belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The FLDS Church has gained notoriety because of the polygamous practices of its members and the activities of its former leader, Warren Jeffs, who may now be founding a new colony in Saskatchewan. An attorney for the court-appointed trustee yesterday told Judge Denise Lindberg that resources from the United Effort Plan trust may have been diverted to new FLDS outposts in Colorado, South Dakota, Texas and Nevada. Judge Lindberg called on law enforcement officers in the sect's communities of Colorado City, Colo., and Hildale, Utah, to end their current obstructionism and cooperate in the investigation of the use of UEP funds.