PAUL FOY
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Supreme Court has ordered the state to pay $5.7 million to court-appointed accountants overseeing the takeover of assets held by a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border.
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff engineered the 2005 takeover. He says he will hand the bill to the Utah Legislature for payment.
Shurtleff hopes to recover the money from the sale of assets of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The money is owed to Salt Lake City accountant Bruce Wisan, his attorneys and other firms hired to dissolve a communal land trust once run by jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
The trust holds the land and homes of FLDS members in the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
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