The Utah courts seized the trust in 2005 after state attorneys alleged church president Warren Jeffs — then a fugitive from Arizona criminal charges — had used trust assets for personal benefit and left it vulnerable to liquidation from default judgments in civil lawsuits filed in 2004. "We are stepping up to protect the interests of the beneficiaries because Warren Jeffs has not" Shurtleff said at the time.
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