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The Cult Dossier · No. 081 · Christian-Derived
Kingston Clan
Latter Day Church of Christ; the Order; Davis County Cooperative Society
1935 – present · Salt Lake County, Utah; Nevada; Idaho
IX. THE FUNDAMENTALIST AND POLYGAMOUS GROUPS
Fully religious — Mormon fundamentalist and commercial
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1935 Elden Kingston founds the order after leaving the LDS Church.
- 1998 A 16-year-old girl escapes after being made the 15th wife of her uncle; her father beats her with a belt 28 times in a barn.
- 1999 David Ortell Kingston convicted of incest and unlawful sexual conduct; John Daniel Kingston convicted of child abuse.
- 2010–2018 THE WASHAKIE FRAUD. Washakie Renewable Energy, owned by Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, and the non-member LEV DERMEN conspire to claim more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS in renewable fuel tax credits; the IRS pays out more than 511 MILLION.
- 2019 Federal prosecutors move to SEIZE homes and businesses as fraud defendants plead guilty. Charges across the case include mail fraud, false claims, money laundering, DESTROYING RECORDS and WITNESS TAMPERING.
- APRIL 2023 SENTENCES: Dermen 40 YEARS; JACOB KINGSTON 18; ISAIAH KINGSTON 12; their mother RACHEL KINGSTON 7; Jacob's wife SALLY KINGSTON 6. (An earlier version of this file gave Jacob the 40 years that went to Dermen.)
- 2022 FORMER MEMBERS, represented by attorney Roger Hoole, FILE A CIVIL SUIT against Paul Elden Kingston and dozens of individuals and entities, alleging child marriage, sexual and physical abuse, fraud and unpaid CHILD LABOUR.
- MAY 2024 TEN WOMEN sue the Latter Day Church of Christ and the Kingston family, making similar claims.
- 22 JANUARY 2025 A FURTHER SUIT IS FILED. The complaint describes the community as 'A RACKETEERING ENTERPRISE, HATE GROUP, AND CORRUPTED POLYGAMOUS CULT', and alleges SEX TRAFFICKING under both federal and Utah law, sexual battery and abuse of a child, rape of an adult, infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.
- FEBRUARY 2025 KATHRINE NICHOLS, 20, files a FEDERAL suit alleging that relatives coerced her into an underage, abusive and bigamous marriage TO HER UNCLE at sixteen.
- 2025–2026 The litigation continues; NO FINAL RULINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. The group says publicly that it opposes child marriage and fraud.
- Present About 7,500 members by a 2019 estimate (the SPLC said 6,000 in 2017); the businesses continue.
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