Church returns $150,000

[moksha]

The church had been sued in federal court by the court-appointed receiver of the DeYoungs' company, American Pension Services, for return of $239,755 in donations (from $25 million in stolen retirement funds). The LDS Church has agreed to return $150,000 of the tithing received.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5351910-155/ ... -donations

It makes sense that the Church keep $90,000 of that tithing money. After all, there is all that overhead cost as well as the hassle of crossing the River Styx and dodging Cerberus to retrieve it from the Church vault, not to mention tipping Charon for his ferryman service.

[Random]

Oh, moksha, I love your humor.

I'm surprised they agreed to return any of it.

[moksha]

The LDS Church has agreed to repay $2.3 million in donations from Jeremy Johnson, the St. George businessman serving a federal prison sentence. The court-appointed receiver in the FTC case had asked the church to return $2.67 million that Johnson had donated from 2006 on. But, according to court filings, the receiver settled with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for $2.35 million.

http://www.sltrib.com/home/5360384-155/ ... -convicted

Once again the Church was able to keep $320,000 for the cost of retrieving the ill-gotten gains from the Church Vault due to the hassle of needing to cross the toxic wastelands of Mordor and securing the repayment from the Dark Tower.