Source: Deseret News

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A lawsuit was filed in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court late Friday, seeking to set aside an $8.8 million default judgment awarded to the court-appointed special fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust. The money was awarded in 2007 to Bruce Wisan after the UEP’s former trustees, including FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, failed to respond to Wisan’s lawsuit alleging they defrauded the trust.

But now the church is fighting back, claiming the judgment was obtained through “fraud upon the court.”

“The judgment was entered based upon false, incomplete, and misleading evidence,” FLDS attorney Rod Parker wrote in the 42-page lawsuit.

The FLDS’s lawsuit alleges that Wisan misrepresented to the court the property values, transactions, and claims the UEP trust may have had over personal property. Wisan has said that property was being taken from the FLDS communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.

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