by admin | May 31, 2019 | Legal News
SALT LAKE CITY — Rick Koerber walked into the federal courthouse on Friday, but he didn’t walk out. Instead, a federal magistrate judge ordered him jailed over new accusations of fraud. Koerber, who was convicted last year in what federal prosecutors...
by admin | Feb 8, 2018 | Legal News
ST. GEORGE — A suspect in the June 2016 abduction of David Heisler, whose body was discovered a month later in a remote area of the Arizona Strip, will serve 75 years in prison after accepting a plea deal in federal court Wednesday. Francis Lee McCard, 56, of...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Legal News
Attorneys for Lyle Jeffs — the last and best known defendant in what prosecutors say was the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints effort to scam a federal welfare program — told a judge Thursday that he has memory problems, and those problems...
by admin | Mar 30, 2017 | Legal News
ST. GEORGE — Nine months after 30-year-old David Heisler was abducted from his Santa Clara home and left for dead on the Arizona Strip, the three suspects believed by authorities to have perpetrated the abhorrent and shocking crime appeared in court. A review hearing...
by admin | Nov 25, 2016 | Legal News
Where, oh where, has Lyle Jeffs gone? He’s the brother of Warren Jeffs, the autocratic guru of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who is serving a life term in federal prison for sexually assaulting his “child brides.” When Lyle Jeffs...
by admin | May 11, 2016 | Legal News
SALT LAKE CITY — In a new court filing, lawyers for Fundamentalist LDS Church bishop Lyle Jeffs and others charged in a massive welfare fraud scheme indicate they will push forward with claims of a religious right to hand over food stamps to the polygamous church....
