Lindon Man Accused of Trying To Kill Witnesses To Alleged Scam

MidUtahRadio.com ^ | Nov. 19, 2009 | Brad James

[Colofornian]

(SALT LAKE CITY)—A Utah investor facing charges for running a Ponzi scheme now is accused of trying to arrange the murder of those scheduled to testify at his trail. The 47-year-old Jeffrey Mowen of Lindon was indicted Wednesday for solicitation to commit a crime of violence, tampering with a witness and retaliating against a witness. Federal prosecutors say Mowen tried to get a fellow Davis County Jail inmate to kill four people in hopes of keeping them from testifying against him. Mowen is accused of running a scam that cost investors $10 million. Mowen could spend 20 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud charges.

[Colofornian]

According to two of his victims -- John Charleston and wife, Cecily Wright, of Washington state, at their Web site, "whoisjeffmowen.com," the Web site author said he was given a bio from Jeffrey Lane Mowen that claimed, "From his college days at Brigham Young University in Provo Utah - Jeff has known the principals of NuSkin. Jeff encouraged them to consider the distribution channel of Network Marketing, making the initial introduction to the 'legendary' founding distributors." [You can see the rest of the bio and other content at:] whoisjeffmowen?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

IMHO interfering or attempting to intefere with witnesses at a trial like this should be executed. The majesty of the law demands that those who seek to subvert it by trying to murder witnesses must face the ultimate punishment, even if they were not successful....