Jun. 14, 2011 12:00 AM
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - The court-appointed accountant for a land trust once run by jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs wants Utah taxpayers to pay off $4.6 million in debts incurred for its management.
In court papers, attorneys for Bruce Wisan have asked a 3rd District judge to order state officials to pay the United Effort Plan Trust debts.
"The trust is facing a continuing, ongoing crisis due to a lack of funds to pay the costs of administration," Wisan's attorney, Jeff Shields, wrote in the May 27 court filing.
The Utah Attorney General's Office opposed the request in a response filed Friday with the court.
The money is owed to lawyers, Wisan's own Salt Lake City accounting firm, an engineering and surveying firm, a public-relations firm and others hired for trust-related business.
Wisan alone is owed more than $1 million, and the firm that employs Shields is owed nearly $2.4 million, according to court documents.
In addition, about $2 million in property taxes is owed on trust property in Utah and northern Arizona.
The $4.6 million currently owed is for expenses incurred since those working for the trust were last paid in 2008.
A message left for Shields by the Associated Press was not immediately returned.
Utah took over the communal-land trust in 2005 amid allegations of mismanagement by Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and other church leaders. All were removed as trust managers by the courts when Wisan was appointed.
Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/14/20110614jeffs0614.html
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