Feds fine Mormon church for illicitly hiding $32 billion investment fund behind shell companies

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a nonprofit entity that it controlled have been fined $5 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission over accusations that the religious institution failed to properly disclose its investment holdings. The church was concerned that disclosure of the assets in the name of the nonprofit entity, called Ensign Peak Advisors, which manages the church's investments, would lead to negative consequences in light of the size of the church’s portfolio, the SEC said. "Since that time, the church said, it had filed 13 quarterly reports in accordance with SEC requirements

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