{"id":335100,"date":"2015-03-21T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=335100"},"modified":"2015-03-23T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:04:43","slug":"state-asks-for-takeover-of-polygamous-towns-water-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=335100","title":{"rendered":"State Asks for Takeover of Polygamous Towns&#8217; Water Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/thumb_warren_jeffs_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/thumb_warren_jeffs_1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_warren_jeffs_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-335101\" \/><\/a>SALT LAKE CITY (AP\/Staff) &#8211; The Utah Attorney General has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to take over a polygamous community&#8217;s water utility amid allegations that managers loyal to imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs have siphoned off $1.7 million in revenue.    Jeffs is serving a life sentence at the Louis C. Powledge Unit near Palestine for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides. But he is thought to still be leading the sect from prison. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>State attorneys say in court documents filed Monday that the money went toward managers&#8217; personal expenses and goods for Jeffs&#8217;s followers in the community located along the Utah-Arizona border.   They allege the water system in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona is in disrepair and Twin City Water Works managers don&#8217;t have proper training to keep the system running.   The water company had denied making improper payments and says the utility is solvent.   The Attorney General wants a southern Utah judge to dissolve the utility and appoint new managers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP\/Staff) &#8211; The Utah Attorney General has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to take over a polygamous community&#8217;s water utility amid allegations that managers loyal to imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs have siphoned off $1.7 million in revenue. Jeffs is serving a life sentence at the Louis C. Powledge Unit near Palestine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=335100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State Asks for Takeover of Polygamous Towns&#8217; Water Utility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 14:56:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335102,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335100\/revisions\/335102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}