The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam

[Gdjjr]

This reads like a fiction crime novel-

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Here’s hoping that the federal government has, then, learned something from the saga of the Lion and the Numbered Man. Because just one month before Dermen’s trial got underway, former president Donald Trump signed a five-year extension of the $1-per-gallon biodiesel blenders tax credit program.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a long read..but so fascinating that I feel impelled to share it:

The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

www.wired.com

Quote is the final paragraph in article.

“It was tax fraud on an almost unimaginable scale,” says Jacob’s own lawyer, Marc Agnifilo. “It’s really a simple fraud. The government is writing these million-dollar checks, $5 million checks, $20 million checks, just because you gave them some paperwork that shows that maybe you made biodiesel.”
Here’s hoping that the federal government has, then, learned something from the saga of the Lion and the Numbered Man. Because just one month before Dermen’s trial got underway, former president Donald Trump signed a five-year extension of the $1-per-gallon biodiesel blenders tax credit program.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

The genuine Mormon church objects to the use of the name “Mormon” to describe sects that have broken away from it.

It is as incorrect as describing Protestants or Orthodox as “Catholic”.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

The genuine Mormon church objects to the use of the name “Mormon” to describe sects that have broken away from it.

It is as incorrect as describing Protestants or Orthodox as “Catholic”.

Except these people feel that they are the genuine....and the modern church apostate.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

The genuine Mormon church objects to the use of the name “Mormon” to describe sects that have broken away from it.

It is as incorrect as describing Protestants or Orthodox as “Catholic”.

Except these people feel that they are the genuine....and the modern church apostate.

As far as I know, every Protestant thinks that it is the genuine church, and that the Catholic church is apostate. But none of the Protestants call themselves or are called by others, “Catholic”.