Following up on our scoop Monday evening about a whistleblower filing alleging a secret $100 billion stockpile by the Mormon Church, we continued our reporting to speak with Loyola University of Chicago law professor Samuel Brunson about the story. Brunson is an expert on tax law and is also a practicing member of the LDS Church.
As a recap of our story Monday: A whistleblower complaint filed at the Internal Revenue Service in November alleges that a non-profit supporting organization called Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc. (EPA), which is controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, used member tithes to amass more than $100 billion in a set of investment funds.
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