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This is Radio Free Mormon on the air, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode, Mormon Affinity Fraud and Bruce R. Mekonki. This is a bit of a

follow-up to the last episode, which involved Bruce R. McConkey and his dealings with B.Y.U. Religion

Professor George W. Pace back in 1980 and 1981. As you may recall from that episode, I was doing some research

on Bruce R. McConkey, and I found a section in his Wikipedia article that talked about

a fraud slash scam that he was involved in as a vice president back in the 1960s.

And I was quite surprised to see that.

And I read the blurb from Wikipedia on last week's show.

Well, in the interim, a number of things have happened.

The first thing that happened is that Lynn Packer, yes, the nephew of Boyd K. Packer,

the one who broke the Paul H. Dunn story, as well as other important

stories. He's an investigative journalist par excellence. And what he did, Lynn Packer, was he forwarded

to me a copy of an article that he wrote back in 1990. And it was an article that was published in a

magazine. I think it was Holiday, Utah, or Utah Holiday Magazine.

I have a slide with it on it here in a second.

And it was written in 1990, and it covered some of the main episodes of Mormon affinity fraud in Utah.

And one of those episodes that he covered was the one involving Bruce R. McConkey. So there's a little more

information in there about what was involved with Bruce R. McConkey and what Bruce R. McConkey

was involved in, to put it chastically. I'm going to get to that here in a second. I was also

quite honored and flattered that in the comments section, I began receiving comments from

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