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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a former county commissioner and a businessman posed as officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to scam a construction company and two others out of $1.2 million.
The Utah Attorney General's Office said Monday the men sent fake church letters and made at least one phone call posing as a church official to get money from a construction company for what they said would be to develop a building site.
Former Utah County Commissioner Gary Jay Anderson and businessman Alan Dean McKee are each facing charges of fraud and pattern of illegal activity.
The AP sought comment from Anderson and McKee, but could not verify whether they had a listed telephone number or an attorney.
Mormon church spokesman Eric Hawkins says the official who the men posed as had no knowledge the "brazen scheme."
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