{"id":2378,"date":"2023-06-30T18:19:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:27:34","slug":"wall-street-journal-begins-examining-irs-violations-exposed-by-mormon-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wall-street-journal-begins-examining-irs-violations-exposed-by-mormon-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Begins Examining IRS Violations Exposed by Mormon Whistleblower Regarding Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-300x157.png\" alt=\"Post-1-300x157\" width=\"455\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-1536x804.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-2048x1072.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-1000x523.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Post-1-229x120.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter reporting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mormon-church-temple-spending-spree-utah-e167977f?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1#comments_sector\">the SEC&#8217;s investigation and findings of 20 years of &#8220;misstatements&#8221; by the LDS Church and Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc<\/a>., the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mormon-church-temple-spending-spree-utah-e167977f?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1#comments_sector\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/jonathan-weil\">Jonathan Weil<\/a> again reports on facts revealed by our SEC and IRS whistleblower submissions on behalf of our client, David Nielsen.\u00a0 Mr. Nielsen exposed violations of law relating to a what he called a &#8220;clandestine hedge fund&#8221; affiliated with the Mormon Church, in his recent appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mormon-church-ensign-peak-whistleblower-david-nielsen-allegations-60-minutes-2023-05-14\/\">60 Minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mormon-church-temple-spending-spree-utah-e167977f?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1#comments_sector\">Turning to IRS violations, this <em>WSJ<\/em> article<\/a> addresses in part why, \u201c[o]n its 2007 return, Ensign Peak put down \u20181,000,000\u2019 for its total assets. The real number was about $38 billion, an Ensign Peak document shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To quote the <em>Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wall-street-journal-begins-examining-irs-violations-exposed-by-mormon-whistleblower\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Wall Street Journal Begins Examining IRS Violations Exposed by Mormon Whistleblower Regarding Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc.\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reporting on the SEC&#8217;s investigation and findings of 20 years of &#8220;misstatements&#8221; by the LDS Church and Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., the Wall Street Journal&#8216;s Jonathan Weil again reports on facts revealed by our SEC and IRS whistleblower submissions on behalf of our client, David Nielsen.\u00a0 Mr. Nielsen exposed violations of law relating to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-whistleblower-program-for-tax-whistleblowers","category-sec-whistleblower-program-cftc-whistleblower-program","category-sec-whistleblower-program-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-fcpa-cases","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wall Street Journal Begins Examining IRS Violations Exposed by Mormon Whistleblower Regarding Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc. &#8212; 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