SALT LAKE CITY (UT)
The New York Times
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 9, 2006
Filed at 7:50 a.m. ET
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah has launched an organized-crime investigation into a polygamist sect and its fugitive leader Warren Jeffs, now on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
Jeffs is already wanted on Utah and Arizona charges alleging he arranged plural marriages of underage girls. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Monday that his office is also looking at Jeffs and his church for ''double books, cooking books, offshore accounts and fraud.''
''I believe Warren Jeffs ran the FLDS church and the UEP as an organized crime-type setup,'' Shurtleff said. ''We just have to get the evidence to prove it.''