This is a hit piece on the Mormons. My cousin Dick was the comptroller for Rite Ade, he was very good at what he did and said that people should buy Rite Aid. People bought Rite Aide, it went down the Toilet, who is to blame, Dick who gave an honest opinion, though he was an evil Mormon or the market.
My first impression of the article was that it was, as you said, a hit piece on the Mormons. But the article didn’t make the connsection that the guy was a con man because he was a Mormon. It seemed to me that it suggested that Barton was a Mormon because he was a con man, and he abused the church’s vetting process.