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SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Attorney General's Office has accepted a check from the Fundamentalist LDS Church for past-due fees in the ongoing legal feud over the polygamous church's real estate holdings arm.
A spokesman for the attorney general's office said in a message to KSL NewsRadio on Friday that they accepted the $192,000 check and gave it to the court-appointed special fiduciary overseeing the United Effort Plan Trust.
Fiduciary Bruce Wisan initially rejected the check because it was made "under protest" by the FLDS Church. Wisan said it was a legal term that reserved the right to further litigation.
Attorney general's spokesman Paul Murphy said it has since been worked out.
The FLDS Church, ex-members, Wisan and the Utah and Arizona attorneys general have been involved in negotiations to settle the legal war over the UEP Trust, which controls homes, businesses and property in the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
In 2005, the UEP Trust was taken over by a judge in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court over allegations of mismanagement.
E-mail: bwinslow@ksl.com
