5: Who Do You Trust?

We created our own podcast. Oh, hey Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to our people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired of just a strong way to put it, but you know, tired and sick, tired and sick. Listen to hey Jonas on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, we don't care where you hear it.

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From Fooduro Studios I'm Fernando Chavari and this is American Football. I show about soccer culture in the US and it underdog roots. Listen to American Football on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Novel. All right, we ready? Yeah. So can you please introduce yourself your name and your former

job title? Sure. My name is Arthur Offensik. I prosecuted text crimes, money laundering, fraud on behalf of the Department of Justice. Arthur and I are speaking through a video call. I'm back home in Venice Beach. Well, he's on the hill in DC. These days he works as chief legal counsel for the Democrats. But I'm talking to him because a few years ago, he was neck-deep in our story and there's one game-changing moment I really want to talk to him about. It's March 17,

2014. And Darrell Leone has rented a minivan. He's heading to the airport in Houston, Texas to pick up two very important clients. Then he gets a text from one of them, Jacob Kingston.

“Jacob texts, and says, "What card you have to come pick us up?" And Darrell says, "We have a minivan."”

And Jacob's like, "No, no, no, that's not going to work. We're not picking up Levon in a minivan. You have to go back and go get some escalates." Darrell turns the soccer mom will be all around and heads back to swap it for an escalate. Then he rushes to the airport. Jacob in Levon are about to land in a private jet. They're all going out for dinner. They're meeting with a potential buyer of biodiesel, Chinese guy. Darrell Leone is a dorky-seeming Miami guy.

His true passion has always been making music. But when his label didn't take off,

he switched to doing logistics. At this point in 2014, Darrell has been working for Jacob for a few years, handling many of the fraudulent fuel cycles, for which he's been getting paid millions of

“dollars. Darrell is both a contractor and an accomplice, but he doesn't seem to be aware of one crucial”

thing. At this point, the EPA is starting to cramly investigate what's going on, and so they're all a little bit concerned that someone's talking and Levon thinks that it might be Darrell.

criminal investigation into Washington Renewable Energy. Jacob Amelie tells Levon who, as he's done

“so many times before, tells Jacob the boys are going to sort it out. But this time, Levon himself”

isn't feeling so confident. This is the first time they know for certain they're being

looked at by criminal investigators. And Levon starts getting suspicious. After Darrell picks Levon and Jacob up at the airport, they all go to dinner with that client. And they go to the stake house, the whole restaurant is shut down, it's just Levon and Jacob's table. Once everyone's done with their meal, Levon asked Darrell to step outside. They huddled away from the valley areas and no one can over here. Levon goes up to Darrell Leon and tells him you're being too flashy.

He grabs Darrell's wrist decorated with a gold Rolex and asks him how much he paid for it. Darrell proudly says 22 grand. Wrong answer. Levon keeps pressing him. I hear you've bought a Lamborghini and Darrell says actually I have two Lamborghinis. Levon is not amused. He gets in Darrell's face. Someone is watching us and I'm worried about you because yaw week after they leave the restaurant Levon's tirade is far from over.

Levon makes Darrell Leon get into his car and he has Darrell Leon sit in the front passenger seat. And Levon sits in the back seat. Two of Levon's bodyguards ride with them.

“Levon keeps grilling Darrell. Are you willing to lie, cheat, and steal to protect us?”

This is basically a loyalty test and Darrell Leon thought he may never come out of that car alive.

He thought Levon dimension thinks I'm a loose piece of the puzzle that he needs to tie down and so he may just off me. But Darrell's also is very charismatic guy and so he talks to Levon and Levon decides that he can trust him. Darrell thinks he's talked Levon down. There's no Delta. The criminal investigation has Levon agitated with the feds hot on their heels. There can be no fuckups. But that's easier said than done.

My name is Michelle McFeed and from the teams at Novel and I Heart Podcasts, this is Kingdom of Fraud. Episode 5. Who do you trust?

“I'm in a hotel room in Salt Lake City. I look out the window and I see snow capped mountains,”

framing this small city, which was built around its majestic moment temple. I'm sitting opposite a young woman. She's quiet and shy and like most of the girls who've come out of the order, very pretty. She seems a little nervous to talk to me. My name is Priscilla Tucker. I'm from the order or people like to call them the Kingston's. Priscilla is 28. She doesn't come back to Utah often. She says it's hard for her. But she's made the journey

today to tell me her story. When she was just 17, Priscilla was put on a collision course with Jacob Kingston and the burgeoning federal investigation into his fraud. Back then, Jacob and Levon were on high alert knowing full well the feds were on their tail. Priscilla was just another teenager in the order. Like most others, she was well aware of Jacob's reputation. I know that he went on this very long journey of trying to make a successful business and

had all these trials and tribulations. And then after he was successful, everybody was like, "Can I have money to buy a house? Can we have money to fix the church?" And he definitely felt

very powerful. One day in early 2015, Priscilla goes to the order's weekly church service.

I was there with my grandma. Church takes place in a packed warehouse,

every one about building the kingdom of God. After the service, Priscilla in a grandmother

“mingle, which is when Jacob and Sally approached me and totally out of nowhere, Jacob makes Priscilla”

a proposal. Jacob said, "I want you to work for me. What will it take?" I'll give you $18 an hour,

which I had never heard of that. Priscilla's dumbstruck. She barely knows Jacob, but in the order,

18 bucks an hour is an outrageously good salary. So, Priscilla says she doesn't think too hard about it and accepts the job. I went and worked for him at WRI and they started having me final their taxes for them. That's 17. They told me exactly what to do and I'm like, "Okay." Priscilla says that sometimes a supervisor at WRI would tell her that, "Yeah, technically we should pay tax for this thing, but we can work around that." He would be like, "Just pay zero,

just a zero, just a zero." Priscilla doesn't really know what the paperwork even relates to, but remember, in the order you do with the one above you tells you to do, especially if you're a woman. I just did exactly what they said. After a few weeks, Jacob pulls Priscilla aside at the office and makes her another unexpected proposal. Jacob started being like, "Oh, I want you to be my assistant. We're going to get you your passport. You're going to go on all my business trips."

Again, Priscilla agrees. Jacob is giving her a shot at a bigger life and some freedom, which is rare for many young women in the order. But then, another even stranger offer comes in

“from Jacob. Him and Sally tried to move me into their house. So, the big house, the manager?”

Yeah, Priscilla has become the focal point of Jacob's attention. I didn't know if Jacob wanted to marry me or he wanted one of his sons to marry me, but it was just giving the vibes of like, "You're doing too much, but it isn't just Jacob." Sally also seems intent on bringing Priscilla into their family. There was one day where Sally was just like, "Yeah, just just come stay with us for one night.

See how you like it." And she put me in the guest house. And I just remember I was so uncomfortable

because I don't even really know these people or what they want. Priscilla has always wanted

to go to Cosmetology School. And Jacob tells her they'll pay for it and buy her a car

“and even her own salon. He wanted me to be the freaking head of marketing. I was like, "What?"”

Jacob even talks to her about Levant. "Yeah, that's my best friend. We like make when he's together. He just hyped up that relationship." And then Priscilla says she even starts having one or one meetings with Jacob in his office. And one of those meetings, Jacob is trying very hard to impress her. He was like filling out an excelsi, Priscilla thinks Jacob is teaching her how to budget money. And he pulled out his own spreadsheet. And he was like, "Look, this is what

we're making and what I'm saying. We're making." And he's just showing me all of the numbers. He's fudging, fudging, or in other words, defrauding. Jacob, now almost 40 and with two wives, is showing off to the 17-year-olds, both think about how much money he's dealing from the government. His confidence was up here. He just thought that I was going to be like, "Oh, wow!" he thought it was so cool. This is how we make money. Right, I have all of these things and you

could have them too. Priscilla has no idea how to react. She just asks him, "How are you getting

away with this?" He's like, "I'll never get caught because we have all of these people." And they'll

be tipped off. And if anything is ever going to happen to me, I'm just going to run to Turkey because I have a compound and they can't extradite me from there. Which as a 17-year-old, I didn't know what any of this meant, but I was like, "Oh, wow, okay." Jacob also tells Priscilla, "He has some powerful people in his pocket, including a prominent Utah politician." How long in total did you work at W.O.E.? Literally only, like, a month. All of this happens extremely fast.

And seriously, I don't know what possessed Jacob. He knows this and I'm going federal investigation into W.O.E. even more importantly, he knows Levon is worried about leaks. But he just can't help

have the guts to go to the FBI. No, I really think that they thought she's going to think we're so

“cool that she's just going to want to join her family. A huge miscalculation. Because Priscilla”

isn't interested in the destiny promised by the order. She wants more than working and marrying

within the Kingston clan. Priscilla has always wanted to get out. I tried running away when I was like

a 10, 12, where did you run to? Down the street, no shoes. I had a loaf of bread in my backpack. I would just do things like that where I'm like, I need to get away. Her life, up to this point, has been a pressure cooker of reasons to run fast and far away. Starting with what those weekly church services were like for the kids. The church had these foldable chairs. And sometimes when these little children were sit on them, they would flip back and the child would fall,

smack their heads and cry. And the parents didn't want their child to be the one interrupting church. So they're taking them to the back. They're slapping them or they're beating them or telling them to stop crying. And it was just normal. Then there are the dances. The order puts on to essentially match make. Where Priscilla describes the disturbing attention from much older men, aimed at much younger girls. I was about eight is when they took us to dances. Yeah,

and immediately everybody's asking you to dance. Sometimes it'll be like the kids your age, kids a little older, and then like creepy old men that are like, I knew you're dead. And I'm like, cool, that's good for you. In addition to this unwanted attention, Priscilla says she's also experienced physical abuse for being rebellious. I definitely did get the majority of the abuse because I was

“more stubborn, and I was more vocal to the point where I think they eventually just beat it”

out of me. So by the time I was mid teens, I was a people pleaser. I didn't know how to stand up for myself, although she certainly keeps trying. Over and over again, Priscilla runs away. Gets found in his voice to return home. Then she just tries again. She's 15 when she attempts

her first serious escape, but it doesn't go anywhere. At 17, just months before getting that job at

WRE, she tries again. This time she actually makes it out for a month. She's away from the order. Until she says her mom calls. She said, "Can we just have lunch one last time before you're not my daughter anymore?" Like basically, I'll talk to you one last time. Priscilla agrees. But as they eat, something feels really off. The doorbell ring, and there was just these two huge people, and they started walking towards me, and all my mom said was, "I told them they could take you."

And I'm like, "Where?" The men grab her, shove her in a car, and drive her to an impatient rehab facility. According to Priscilla, her mom has her committed, telling the facility that her daughter is an addict, which Priscilla adamantly denies. She says it's a control tactic. After a long three months, she gets out. And right after that, is when Jacob offers her that job at WRE. She takes it, but Priscilla knows that the first chance she gets, she's out of there.

Jacob had taken me to a jazz game. The Utah Jazz is the state's NBA team. WRE is a big money sponsor. It's not long after Jacob told Priscilla about all the money he's dealing. We sat right next to court side, and he was like, "Oh, these are the things you could do all

the time. It's going to be so amazing." I was like, "Oh, yeah, wow, wow, well, I was already talking

to the producers of escaping polygamy." A escaping polygamy is a scripted reality show about,

“"Well, I think the title says it all." Sitting in these expensive court side seats close enough”

that they could be sprayed with the player's sweat. Priscilla has already scheduled her high

As on my grandma's house and the producer message me and she's like, "Okay, go outside. We're

“almost there." So I go outside, and I shut the door in this kind of loud. My grandma was upstairs,”

and then my uncle and his family were downstairs. I'm like, "Somebody's going to hear something or just have a feeling from the Lord that I was out there." Priscilla looks for the car that's supposed to take her away, but it's nowhere to be seen. She waits, but what seems like an eternity,

and then the car finally drives up to the house. Priscilla hurls her bags in, slips into the

back seat and speeds away. She's going to Las Vegas, where child runaway laws mean her parents can't force her to come back home. Priscilla's years-long Odyssey to get away from the order is finally over, but she isn't finished with them yet. Just weeks later, she meets up with some old friends. I got together with Amanda, who told us all about the order back in episode 1, and everybody that kind of left before me, and I was just telling them about my story and told

them like what Jacob said and like, "What?" It turns out, some of these ex-order members have been gathering evidence against members of the group to share it with law enforcement. But what Priscilla is telling them is totally new and potentially huge information, and it comes with a money trail. Someone suggests getting in touch with the IRS. They did reach out to the IRS and told me like, "Hey, you want you to talk to the sky if you're open to it?" and I'm like, "Yeah, sure."

Yeah, sure. Usually, undercuts how big of a moment this is. Priscilla, a 17-year-old self-described people pleaser, who says she's dealt with a lifetime of abuse, decides to not only walk away from the source of all her trauma, but to also stand up to it. Just a few weeks later, Priscilla meets with the IRS and starts talking. More on that after the break.

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No, it's podcast time. We just asked other people questions because we're sick and tired of

being asked questions. Hey, Jonas is available now and their first guest is a big one, Paul Rudd.

You know, Steve Correll is a great singer. We tell you not to audition for the office or something. I told him, "Whoa." We were filming anchor man. Clearly, I was the idiot. Thank God he didn't listen to him, right? Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi listeners, I'm Michelle, host of the Kingdom of Fraud Podcast.

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I love the sounds, the buzzing from the stadium, the chanting from the fans, the announcers calling the place soccer, football, it's home. Why do I watch the world cup? That's like asking me,

“why do I breed? I inherited that fandom from my mom. I think watching it with my dad.”

It's a connecting force. From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernando Chavari and this is American Football.

to the people and the stories that make it great. As soccer game is festival. It's not just a game.

It's your culture. I took an elbow to my head which cracked my skull. It is an American game.

“The Brazilian still like hearing that though. Are they the only ones I don't like?”

Actually, nobody likes that. As we get ready for the men's world cup this summer, listen to American Football as part of the Michael Thuda Podcast Network, available on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was sort of a multifaceted, wide open case. A lot of different angles are being worked. There is a wider birth of the Kingston group, specifically within that Washington was a target.

This isn't the IRS agent Kassilla met with. He declined our interview request. So instead, I'm talking to his colleague, special agent Steven Washburn. Steven jumped onto this case later on, but from what he says, it seems IRS agents have been suspicious of WRE for a long time.

“For starters, Jacob's production plan was built in an unusual spot.”

This little town up in Northern Utah, it's just sitting there in the middle of the desert. It's a preposterous place for a fuel plant. No one's creating this stuff in the mountains light years away from ports, right? It doesn't make any sense. Steven says in agent, sees the huge claims WRE is putting through for millions upon millions of dollars every few weeks in Snills Bullshit. So, he mounts a one-man stake out.

He dries up the I-15 and hides out at the turn-off near the WRE plant. He sat out there in his car and just watched the plant for days. He's watched trucks and he's like, "Alright, they're claiming so many millions of gallons here of bodies." I'm gonna see how much is actually moving around up there and he determined there's no way they're producing millions. They should have so many trucks a day coming in and out.

Yeah, there should be a train a truck. Yeah, there should be trucks constantly.

“That's what initially garnered the interest in Wresherke.”

And then Priscilla comes in with a story from within the heart of the company. For while the IRS is watching from afar, the environmental protection agencies criminal investigators hit Jacob hard. They continue putting pressure on him, ordering him to turn over documents. Jacob is now nervous. One day, he texts Lovon asking, "In code, what's going on with the EPA? Are the boys taking care of it or not?" Here's my producer Jake with Jacob's testimony.

I asked him how the weather is. Is it cold? Because it's cold here. He says, "It's a little chilly." I asked him, "Do you know if Utah is getting warm?" He says, "U Utah is cold." Lovon is telling Jacob he's dealt with the investigation. But to Jacob, it doesn't look like it's been fucking dealt with. All of this time Jacob has trusted Lovon to protect him. But now he's thinking as Lovon just foolish it. Despite any doubts Jacob might have, their fraud has become a

hungry beast that constantly needs feeding. They're continuing to make obscene amounts of money.

And 2013 alone, they bank $300 million in tax credits. A lot of money is coming in, but Jacob says,

"A lot of it goes straight back out." By 2014? I've spent between $30 or $15 million in upgrading our facility in Utah. I'd send almost $100 million to Lovon and either cash payments are product. Plus, a lot of Jacob's money is flowing to Turkey, like we talked about in our previous episode. Jacob also claims he funnels over $30 million to the order. Though, they say that money was for, quote, legitimate services or to repay money already loaned.

"Whatever money he has left, he spends on shit-like luxury trips and high-end clothes and cross-fit instructors. When you add all of that up, in reality, Jacob is essentially broke." So Jacob and Lovon decide to run another scheme.

The problem is, Jacob came in a four-dipay for the biofuel to run around in circles,

like he's done in the past. He has to come up with a different solution.

We was just going to file financial backing and transactions to back up the claims. "They're now at the point they're saying, "Stru buying real biofuel, screw shipping it around the world." Instead, they're going to wire millions of dollars back and forth between Wari and Daroleone, the logistics guy, creating an imitation of real biofuel trade.

Then, in early 2015, Jacob and Lovon file a claim for $170 million in tax credits.

Sure, the EPA is all over them. But, the fraud must go on. Now, I want to pause over all the flabbergasting amounts of money here. Including the pales from the previous years, Jacob and Lovon have now stolen nearly a half a billion dollars. Only this is a catch for Jacob.

Lovon tells them that with all this heat, the boys are taking more risk. That means they'll only keep protecting them from the feds if they get a 50% cut of the entire fraud.

For this latest scheme, that comes out to around $80 million. Just for protection.

This is a lot of money for Jacob. But the feds are beginning to close in. He's out of options. What else can he do? Other than betting it all on the boys' protection, and praying for the best. He agrees to Lovon's terms, which means that out of the latest $170 million check, Jacob sends Lovon around $100 million. Lovon's cut and the money Lovon is supposed to pass on to the boys. Only even that doesn't assuage Jacob's anxiety.

A few months later, Priscilla gets an unpleasant visit from Jacob, whose paranoia has clearly started to take over.

“He was like, "You need to tell me what you know. Is somebody coming after me?"”

That's after the break. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Lovon? We created our own podcast. Oh, hey, Jonas, we invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to first people to do podcast. Pretty. Yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts, right there. But this one's extra special.

So how do we actually come up with a name, "Hey Jonas, guys"? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And, oh, we were thinking, I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers.

“Well, this is how you guys remember it going down. Yes, I have a very different memory of this.”

We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast. We could call in and say, "Hey Jonas, and then I broke down on my little note pad. Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title." Oh, the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen, we don't care where you hear it.

Hi listeners, I'm Michelle, host of the Kingdom of Fraud Podcast.

And I'm excited to share this incredible story with you.

I'm also excited to tell you that you can get access to all episodes of Kingdom of Fraud. 100% ad-free in one week early, through the iHeart True Crime Plus subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Plus, you'll get access to other chart-topping True Crime shows you love, like the girlfriends, the trail, the godmother, paper goes, picked in massacre, murder homes, unrestorable, and more. So don't wait.

Head to Apple Podcasts, search for iHeart True Crime Plus, and subscribe today. If you're seeking to try to understand the forensic science behind these cases that we hear about

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It's a connecting force. From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernanda Chavari and this is American Football.

I show about soccer culture in the US and it's under dog roots. We go beyond the game to the people and the stories that make it great. A soccer game is festival. It's not just a game. It's your culture. I took an elbow to my head which cracked my skull. It is an American game.

“The Brazilians don't like hearing that though. Are they the only ones I don't like?”

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In late spring of 2015, just a few months after her escape, Priscilla is living in Vegas. She's just turned 18 and she's trying to build a new life for herself. When, one day, her old life comes knocking. Jacob or Sally reached out to me and they were like, "Hey, we're coming to Vegas. Would you want to come to dinner with us or meet up with us?" And then he's like, "We're bringing your sister." Priscilla's older sister, Hannah. That was just

so I would agree. Like, when we'd up with you, because my sister's with you. So I was like, "Okay." So they come, they pick me up and we go, like, on the strip. Priscilla, her sister, Hannah. Jacob and Sally are all walking in the kaleidoscopic glow of the hotels and casinos. Priscilla still has no idea what this weird reunion is all about. And Jacob just keeps offering to buy her shit. We're, like, passing designer stores and he's like, "Do you want to back?"

We, no, I'm good. He's like, "Do you want something from there? Do you want something from there?" Like, "I'm okay." Then we go to dinner. They have dinner at the win. The famous five-star hotel that looks like a curved pain of a honey-colored glass. It's Jacob's favorite because it's Levant's favorite. In a page out of the lion's book, he's ordering caviar for the table, showing off for the

ladies. So far, it's innocuous. But the next day, it finally becomes clear what the hell this

“bizarre old visit is all about. He just sat me down and he was like, "You need to tell me what you”

know. Is somebody coming after me? And what do they know? Who is it?" And I'm like, "I don't know you're talking about." And he's like, "Who is it?" Because I know you know. From the way Priscilla remembers it, it sounds like someone from the inside has told Jacob about her meeting with the IRS. But I think it's also possible that Jacob is just terrified because he realized how dumb it was to blabber to Priscilla. She could easily turn on him and blow the whistle to the fence.

Which, of course, she has. But he doesn't know that. Not the certain. And Priscilla isn't telling him. She claims he goes from sweet talking her to threatening her. If you don't tell me, you are going to go to prison. I was like, "What?" Priscilla claims, Jacob is using a rumor about an older man in the order praying on her as a threat. He was acting like because this man prayed on me. As a 17-year-old, I was going to go to prison.

What Jacob is saying makes absolutely no sense. Even Priscilla in the moment is a little like, "What now?" He'd down, I was like, "What ever Jacob?" I was like terrified, but at the same time, I was like, "I didn't do anything wrong." I was like, "Oh my God, what am I going to do?" But also, I couldn't tell him. She holds strong. Then he talked to my sister and he was like,

“"You need to get her to tell us or she's going to be in a lot of trouble." She had no idea what”

was going on. So she came to me, crying, she was like, "Please tell them whatever they need to know." Like, he said you're going to be in a lot of trouble. I don't want anything to happen to you. Now Priscilla just wants to get out of there, away from Jacob. So she calls the woman she's been staying with ever since her televised escape. I was crying. I'm like, "I don't know what to do." Like, "He's threatening me. Can you guys come get me?" So they came to come grab me and,

as they're walking through the casino, they see Jacob over here, gambling a lot of money. They get Priscilla out of the hotel and drive off. Priscilla is upset. One, I was sad that

"He just threatened me. I can't help but like Priscilla." She's a feisty badass,

especially considering where she came from. Not long after this, Priscilla gets that another phone call. The producer from a scheming clinic called me, it was like, "Did you know Hannah got married and I'm like, "No, she didn't. To who?" And she said, "Jakob." And I'm like, "You're lying to me." And she's like, "No, she didn't. You didn't know that?" And I'm like, "No, I didn't know that." So I messaged my sister. I was like, "You got married to Jacob." And I was like, "Crying because

why am I the last person to hear that my sister got married?" And to Jacob.

Hannah has become Jacob's third wife. It is clear to Priscilla that she has no idea about his life

“of crime or that the feds are on to them. I was honestly really scared because I knew all of this”

stuff and I was like, "He's going to bring her down with him but I can't tell her anything because what now I'm going to be an accessory to whatever they're doing, right? Because they're already watching them now. So I was just like, "Okay, I hope you're happy, whatever." By talking to the feds, Priscilla has tried to do the right thing. But did that put her in danger?

It's clear the time has come for the authorities to do something. And a few months later,

they move in. Jacob is in the middle of a weekly management meeting with his brother Isaiah, and his father, Daniel. It's early February 2016. In his testimony, Jacob says, "According to Jacob, the voice introduces itself as Mr. Green. Mr. Green says he's calling from the

“IRS field office in Salt Lake City with some important information." There would be a raid on our”

office the next Wednesday on February 10th. The IRS is ready to take their investigation public but someone is tipping Jacob out. That's next week on Kingdom of Rod. Kingdom of Rod is produced by novel from iHeart Podcasts. For more from novel, visit novel.odio. The show is hosted by me, Michelle McPhee, and produced by Jake Otayovich. It's reported by me and Jake Otayovich. Our assistant producers are Megan Dean and Amalia Sortland. With additional

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