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More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. It was Mothers Day in 2000, and Stephen and two of his brothers were speeding up a dirt road for dinner at an aunts house. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. Come back, his dad will say. One Former LDS Fundamentalist - Polygamist group understands - XMission For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. The Order/ Kingston Clan by t mc - Prezi His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. Former Order members remain convinced the Knights stole the gold. The adult residents of Short Creek todayboth those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cultare mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals. He seemed like the most amazing guy, Stephen recalls. In the kitchen, he opened a closet and popped a hatch in the floor that led down to a dark, musty basement. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. Now, two years later, Stephen still sleeps with a gun near his bed. She directs me to the houses she lived in after that: her stepdad Jim Jessop's home; then the rotten, roach-infested house she and her mother shared with nearly two dozen cousins and friends after being removed from Jim's following the Judgment. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister.