The state of Utah in 2016 helped federal law enforcement investigate members of a polygamous sect suspected of misreporting their income, an administrator at the Utah Department of Workforce Services acknowledged last week.
State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. No criminal charges were filed and no one from the sect was asked to repay any government benefits they received, said Dale Ownby, director of the eligibility services division at DWS.
“It was a specific investigation that we were approached by the feds to participate in,” Ownby said in an interview Friday.