After an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the president of Turkey in 2016, associates of two brothers from a Utah polygamous sect, who are now under indictment, started a media campaign to force the sale of an airline, according to a new federal lawsuit.
The lawsuit also spells out the connection the two brothers, Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, have to a man indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. That connection runs through Turkey, a country that has frequently come up in the past year as the Kingston brothers have faced lawsuits and a lengthy indictment alleging fraud and money laundering at their biofuel company, Washakie Renewable Energy.