This is the American Greet Podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Keech.

In this episode of American Greet, Jacob Kingston is a high-ranking member of the order.

The most powerful religious sect you've never heard of.

I want to start by bearing my testimony that this is the work of the Lord.

The fed say the order controls an empire of hundreds of businesses throughout the American West.

Allegedly, we're hundreds of millions of dollars.

Most of the members believe that they work hard to make money for the order because God's army is going to need to be well-funded when Jesus comes.

But this deep-pocketed holy man has a surprising partner, a shady fuel baron who calls himself the lion.

He's this very flashy figure, dresses and very expensive clothes, throws lavish parties, drives fancy cars.

The polygamist and the lion steal millions from the government in a bio-fuel scheme until they are met by another unlikely combo to nation's federal agents and a teenaged girl.

My dad has over 300 kids.

An insider determined to break away from the order and expose the truth.

I knew that this was my chance to get out and I had to take it and I couldn't look back.

She is privy to all the transactions that happen within the order.

We started explaining that all these businesses are connected and all these people are connected. They're all part of this cult.

A member of a fundamentalist polygamist sect, a guy with three wives and 20 children, teams up with an immigrant from Armenia to steal $500 million from the federal government.

Doesn't get any more American than that.

On a cold morning just before dawn, 17-year-old Mary Jacobs gets up and dressed while her family sleeps.

Today is the day she decides to change her life forever.

I remember getting up that morning knowing that I was going to leave the order.

Mary Jacobs is escaping from her parents who would have her engaged to marry her first cousin in two days.

The order believes in incestuous relationships to keep their bloodline pure.

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