An IRS agent testified in August that two defendants accused of fraud and money laundering, including one from Utah's polygamous Kingston Group, built a relationship with Turkey’s president and used cash to ensure they would not be extradited from there if they ever fled the United States.
Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, through their biofuel company called Washakie Renewable Energy, sent $134 million to Turkey from September 2013 through the end of 2015, according to records submitted in the criminal case.
At an Aug. 28 hearing for a co-defendant Lev Aslan Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhyan, in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles, IRS agent Tyler Hatcher made what is thus far the only suggestion by the U.