Amidst another slow news Monday morning, we'll lift another story from yesterday's Standard-Examiner news queue. We've expended substantial electronic ink over the past couple of years covering the Val Southwick Ponzi scam; and as always, we'd like to keep our archival history fully updated.
So here's the most recent Val Southwick story, in which Tim Gurrister reports that the LDS Church has entered into an agreement with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission to disgorge $202,761.74 in tithing, which Boss Godfrey's bestest buddy (Southwick, of course) paid over to the LDS Church during the period 2001 through 2006:
• Swindler's tithing returnedWhat will be the next step in the Val Southwick saga, aside from the further rounding up of other culprits and co-perpetrators who aided and abetted Southwick in his $142 million Ponzi ripoff?
We'll go out on a limb and predict this: There Goes Southwick's Temple Recommend.
Dang!