Former FLDS president gets maximum sentence on bigamy counts

A jury in Midland, Texas, has sentenced Wendell Loy Nielsen, a former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and erstwhile close associate of its imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, to the maximum 10 years and $10,000 fine on each of three counts of felony bigamy.
Last November Nielsen revoked a plea deal in which he was sentenced to 10 years probation.