1765: LDS Donations Misuse on 60 Minutes w/ Mark Pugsley
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Mark Pugsley is back in the house with John Dehlin and Gerardo Sumano to discuss the recent 60 minutes coverage of the current investigation into the Mormon Church's financial dealings. Do members deserve to know where their dollars go? Or do those details deserve to be kept secret?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host for today John D'Alene. It's May 16th |
| 0:08.2 | 2023 and today we are covering what was I think a really important |
| 0:14.6 | episode of |
| 0:16.4 | 60 minutes which is a show |
| 0:19.4 | broadcasted here in the United States a new show and it covered |
| 0:24.0 | whistleblower David Nielsen from Insign Peak kind of a little bit about his story and |
| 0:29.6 | about his whistleblowing of |
| 0:32.5 | inappropriate behaviors by Insign Peak and |
| 0:35.6 | how it led to an IRS both whistleblowing filing and hopefully |
| 0:41.0 | some sort of investigation by the IRS. In the past we have been covering |
| 0:46.4 | this story in various ways. There's a really important |
| 0:50.3 | report that I want to make sure all of you have access to and know about. It's the Widows Might Report |
| 0:55.7 | which attempts to break down and estimate the Mormon Church's wealth and how it uses this wealth and |
| 1:02.6 | you know estimates of its assets of its charitable givings etc. |
| 1:05.8 | You can see multiple episodes of the Insign Peak report coverage here on Mormon Stories and |
| 1:11.6 | then of course we have tried to cover the securities and exchange commissions |
| 1:17.3 | recent I don't know I'll call it a settlement with the Mormon Church where the Mormon Church paid in aggregate |
| 1:23.1 | we can just say five million dollars of fines or penalties for |
| 1:27.3 | inappropriate filings with the SEC and |
| 1:30.4 | the gentleman that we had back on Mormon Stories the expert that we had to talk about the SEC case |
| 1:38.2 | in specifically and whom we've had on |
| 1:41.0 | Mormon Stories in the past to talk about fraud within Utah specifically is our dear friend Mark Pugsley. Hey Mark welcome back. Hey John |
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