Mormon Tithing Class-Action Lawsuit Explained! - Plaintiffs Allege Fraud | Ep. 1920

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we will dive deep into the unfolding legal action surrounding The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) and its financial practices. Multiple lawsuits alleging fraud over tithing will be consolidated into a high-stakes class action case, accusing the church and its investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, of misleading members about the use of their donations. We will break down the complexities of the case, exploring how plaintiffs from across the nation are coming together to challenge the church's financial transparency and demand accountability for what they claim is a multibillion-dollar "slush fund." Firm representing the lawsuit: https://www.seegerweiss.com/ https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/07/20/new-class-action-case-over-tithing/ Show notes: https://www.mormonstories.org/mormon-tithing-class-action/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host
0:04.6	John Delinn. It's July 22nd, 2024 and today we are here to talk about a new lawsuit or a set of lawsuits that are now facing the
0:18.9	Mormon Church. If we go to the Salti Tribune, it's an article that came out over the weekend on July 20th,
0:26.4	so just two days ago, the headline for the article is,
0:30.1	New Class Action case, overtithing could lead to millions suing the LDS Church.
0:36.8	The subtitle says multiple complaints have been rolled into one mega case, accusing the faith and its investment arm of using
0:45.8	charitable donations to create a million dollar slush fund. So today we're
0:51.4	going to be addressing the topic of again did the Mormon church commit
0:56.2	fraud or break the law in some way in how it has talked about its you know
1:02.2	building of City Creek Mall of the way that it's not spent or spent its
1:07.5	tithing or its investments over the years and maybe more importantly to some of our viewers and listeners,
1:13.5	is there any way that any of you who feel like you pay tithing
1:19.0	under false pretenses
1:22.0	without a full understanding of where the money was going to go.
1:25.2	Is there a chance of any of you getting your timing money back? So that's kind of
1:30.2	going to be what we're going to be talking about today. We're grateful to have with us for me as
1:36.8	co-host for today, Harardo Somano. Hey, Harardo. Hey, Harardo. Hey, John. You're kind of one of our legal correspondent co-hosts, right?
1:46.0	Yeah, I'll say so. I'll take that credit. Yeah, for sure.
1:53.0	Okay.
1:54.0	Y'all have no idea how much Rardo knows about the law.
1:57.0	But we'll call him our chief legal correspondent,
2:01.0	at least for today, back on Mormon Stories podcast attorney Idaho attorney
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