A top leader in a polygamous church in Hildale, Utah was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports Lyle Jeffs was convicted of defrauding a government assistance program and then fleeing law enforcement and will serve five years in federal prison followed by three years of probation and a $1 million restitution fine to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Lyle Jeffs led daily operations of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and is the brother of the church’s imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs.
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Lyle Jeffs pleaded guilty in September to the food stamp fraud charges against him, after he was caught from being on the run for nearly one year.