Lynn Packer's Latest on Tim Ballard Reveals Second Apostle's Involvement
The Wild World of M. Russell Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad
Journalist Lynn Packer recently released his latest piece on the ongoing saga of Operation Underground Railroad, its affiliated companies, and recently excommunicated OUR founder Tim Ballard.
In prior articles, IRA has noted that while the story is relevant to the Hamblin case due to alleged LDS Church of Satan Punisher Gordon Bowen’s involvement in drafting the public communique condemning Tim Ballard for immoral activities, those activities do not have to rise to the level of sexual impropriety in order to justify Tim Ballard’s excommunication. Ballard’s involvement with necromancer, medium, and psychic reader Janet Russon is a sufficient grounds to justify his excommunication. The hypocrisy of the LDS in turning to an alleged pedophile and proven homosexual in Gordon Bowen, who was excommunicated in 2003, is obvious, but it does not to dispel the reality that Tim Ballard deserved excommunication for his involvement with Russon, even if he did nothing sexually inappropriate.
Lynn Packer’s latest video does nothing to prove that Tim Ballard was involved in sexual impropriety, but it does paint a damning picture of two apostles in the Quorum of the Twelve and at least one General Authority. M. Russell Ballard’s involvement in Tim Ballard’s Slave Stealers, Liberty 89, and other ventures was known, but Packer alleges that Apostle Dale G. Renlund was also embroiled in Tim Ballard’s businesses, along with Emeritus General Authority Robert C. Gay.
Packer reports that Gay, Ballard, and Renlund invested $600,000 in Tim Ballard’s movie ventures in 2013. Additionally, M. Russell Ballard was a silent partner in Tim Ballard’ for-profit venture Slave Stealers, and Packer further alleges that Ballard met with the entire Quorum of the Twelve on January 12, 2017. Packer names Tixoc Munoz, ex deputy chief of staff for Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, as the source of the information on the secret 2017 meeting between Ballard and the Quorum of the Twelve.
By 2018, Slave Stealers LLC had been incorporated and its address was 228 South 200 West, P.O. Box 10, Farmington, UT, the same address where M. Russell Ballard’s son in law Brad Brower headquartered his business offices. Paul Hutchinson, billionaire investor and OUR backer, hosted an August 2019 meeting at his home where Ballard outlined his plans on a whiteboard. Packer claims that Hutchinson’s home allegedly contains a sex room, but cites no source for the claim, nor does he go into any additional detail as to how he came to that allegation.
Paul Hutchinson
Hutchinson was caught on tape touching the breasts of a young girl in Mexico during an OUR operation. The girl was allegedly 16, but Hutchinson claimed to have an affidavit proving that she was 18. Hutchinson has not released the affidavit to prove his claims. Bryan Purdy of the Davis County Attorneys Office correctly notes that Hutchinson and the OUR operatives are discussing plans to throw a party and takedown within three hours of their scheduled flights home, without any “discussion of how to handle the victims and provide care for them, work the case after the takedown.”
The documentation is particularly damning considering that OUR is a private nonprofit, and regardless of the claimed motivations of Hutchinson, Ballard, and OUR’s operatives, what they are doing in the footage reviewed by the Davis County Attorneys Office is illegal. OUR is not a law enforcement agency. It is a private non-profit, and its workers are engaged in the very definition of trafficking by soliciting pimps in Mexico to procure children. There is no legal basis for OUR to perform the work outlined in the footage reviewed by Bryan Purdy.
OUR’s employees crossed international boundaries to solicit underage prostitutes, and they recorded themselves doing so. Worse yet, they recorded Paul Hutchinson touching a 16 year old girl’s breast, and her reaction makes it clear that she did not consent to being touched. Whether she wass 16 or 18 is irrelevant, because Paul Hutchinson is on video committing a sexual assault.
Hutchinson, Ballard, and their fellow operatives are not raiding a sex trafficking operation. They are openly soliciting traffickers to bring them children. OUR purported to use intelligence in advance to locate sex trafficking locations, and then raid those locations to liberate the survivors. That is not what the video footage reviewed by Bryan Purdy shows. What is shows is Paul Hutchinson and others recording themselves procuring child prostitutes and making unwanted sexual contact with those prostitutes.
In simple terms, the footage reviewed by Bryan Purdy showed OUR’s employees committing crimes, and the footage shows Paul Hutchinson sexually assaulted a girl who was either 16 or 18 years of age. The fact that the girl was a sex worker does not make Hutchinson’s actions legal; it simply reinforces the reality that Hutchinson’s actions were illegal because the girl in question was clearly an abuse victim being offered up to Hutchinson in exchange for money by a trafficker.
Hutchinson’s claim that he was acting as an undercover operative is irrelevant. At no time was Paul Hutchinson operating as an employee of any law enforcement agency, and even if he were, he would not have legal authority to touch the breast of a trafficking victim regardless of her age. The ends do not justify the means, and no legal exception exists that would exempt Paul Hutchinson from criminal culpability for his actions. The footage further reveals that an OUR operative told Hutchinson all he had to do to avoid culpability for his actions was to abstain from telling his bishop.
Lynn Packer’s video shows footage of Paul Hutchinson at his home, where he hosted celebrities and wealthy members of the Utah business community at an event. One of the individuals who appears in that footage is known to Investigations in Ritual Abuse because he was the subject of an investigative project for a private client. During the course of that project, allegations were uncovered that the individual in question engaged in a sexual relationship with a high school student, one of more than 13 extramarital affairs the subject engaged in over the course of his first marriage.
The child in question was 16 years of age at the time, and the subject allegedly stowed her in an airport hangar after she had an argument with her parents. According to those with direct knowledge of the affair, the subject purchased a residence in Taylorsville, Utah for his minor mistress. This would not be the only individual affiliated with Hutchinson and OUR who had allegations of sexual impropriety.
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins has been affiliated with OUR and Tim Ballard, and provided his personal 737 for the transport of Venezuelan sex trafficking victims to the United States.
Lynn Packer covered this story as well.
Ballard claimed he was able to secure visas for the women by leveraging his connections to the Trump Administration, and he used his relationship with Tony Robbins to use Robbins’s jet to transport the women to the United States. The women were then allegedly put through a college entrepreneurship program.
Before that, the women stayed at Tony Robbins’ Florida mansion. Robbins had ties with OUR that extended to traveling along on an OUR operation, which he spoke about on video.
The issue with Tony Robbins taking a jaunt with OUR is not immediately obvious, unless of course you are familiar with the coverage of sexual abuse allegations against Robbins. Buzzfeed News covered an allegation against Robbins from 1985, when he appeared at SuperCamp, a getaway for teenagers at Westmont College in California. Robbins delivered a speech detailing his efforts to hep middle aged couples whose sex lives were deteriorating to a crowd full of teenagers, and then segued into a story about using “neuro-linguistic programming” to seduce a woman at a restaurant.
He then summoned a teenage girl from the audience to demonstrate his use of NLP.
Two former campers independently told BuzzFeed News that Robbins had invited a teenager onstage and asked if she was attracted to him. When she said “no,” the crowd laughed.
Then Robbins asked her to picture a guy she was attracted to. He told her to think of the guy, close her eyes, then open them again, and look back at him. After Robbins repeated the exercise several times, the girl appeared to go into a hypnotic trance. Robbins asked her whether her feelings had changed.
The girl bashfully said yes. The audience oohed.
"Tony took a girl and made her fall in love with him by asking her to think of an old boyfriend that she really loved,” former camper Jennifer Munn had written in her diary. “He asked her questions about him and pointed to himself. She almost drooled over him and she seemed to be very upset.”
Robbins then snapped the girl back to reality by transferring “her feelings of lust for Tony” into platonic feelings for a relative, Munn had written. David Curry also remembered Robbins asking the girl to think of that relative and announcing afterward that she had been “deprogrammed.”
The girl onstage was Elle, she said in her statement. She had no memory of what she said during the presentation, “except that I remember hearing laughter from other campers” after Robbins snapped her out of her trance, she said.
In simple terms, Tony Robbins used a method derived from hypnosis on a child at a summer camp to transfer her sexual attraction from a teenage peer to him, when he was a 25 year old man.
Robbins focused on the girl throughout the day, pressing himself against her during a spelling contest, and asking her how it felt when she orgasmed in front of other campers. The girl, interviewed by Buzzfeed News four decades later, recounted how Robbins had taken her outside and onto a trail. She alleged that he forced himself onto her, kissing her and groping her underneath her clothing.
Afterwards, she returned to the camp and told multiple individuals what had occurred. Three of those individuals-Brett West, Ian McKinnon, and Erica DeGroot-corroborated her claims that she had told them about Robbins assaulting her. A camp counselor named Tamara Drean claimed that she had told camp founder Bobbie DePorter about the incident and the girl’s claim that Robbins had fondled her breast. Jennifer Munn, a camper, claimed to have witnessed the incident, as did campers Steffanie Scott and Eva Bush. Deborah DeGroot’s older sister Erica was the victim’s roommate, and Erica and Deborah both corroborated the victim’s claim that she had told them about the incident.
Another SuperCamp counselor claimed that Robbins had acknowledged to him that he had engaged in the alleged conduct with the victim. SuperCamp cut Robbins’ engagement short and told the campers that Robbins had been asked to leave early. The allegations against Robbins involving SuperCamp were made after BuzzFeed had covered the allegations of ten other women who alleged that Robbins had harassed or assaulted them over three decades.
Additionally, Robbins’ behavior during events revealed a mindset that was troubling, especially in the context of a man going on OUR operations.
Secret recordings and transcripts from inside his events reveal Robbins has unleashed expletive-laden tirades on survivors of rape and domestic violence after inviting them to share their stories in front of a vast audience. “She’s fucking using all this stuff to try and control men,” he said after one woman said she had been raped. When, in 2018, another woman said her husband was physically violent and emotionally abusive, Robbins accused her of “lying” and asked: “Does he put up with you when you’ve been a crazy bitch?”
Interviews and records reveal how Robbins has created a highly sexualized environment in which both men and women have been told to touch themselves intimately and simulate orgasms — but he has repeatedly singled women out of the crowd for more personal attention. One secret recording from 2018 captured him laughing as he told a woman in the audience that he wanted her to “come up onstage and make love to me.” And two former bodyguards told BuzzFeed News they were sent out to trawl audiences for attractive women on Robbins’ behalf. Two women told BuzzFeed News they had witnessed it or experienced it themselves.
Analysis
OUR’s own footage revealed Paul Hutchinson sexually assaulting a female, either 16 or 18 years of age, who was brought to him by a pimp after Hutchinson paid him money to procure underage girls. OUR’s admitted affiliation with Tony Robbins, a man accused of sexual harassment and even assault by no fewer than 11 women, including one who was under the age of 18 at the time of her alleged assault, provides an even more disturbing context. The appearance of a man in Hutchinson’s video of an OUR fundraiser who allegedly dated a high school student, and who had multiple extramarital affairs-is yet another troubling indicator of OUR’s recklessness.1
An organization like OUR is the perfect magnet for men who seek out child sexual abuse material and trafficking victims, because OUR sold access to its operational activities, or jumps, for wealthy donors. Those donors could go along on OUR jumps, which involved trips to strip clubs and establishments where traffickers were willing and able to procure women and girls for money. A source indicated too IRA that OUR had an issue with certain donors who used their association with OUR to obtain access child sexual abuse material procured via OUR’s operations. Possessing child pornography or child sexual abuse material is in no way legal for a private nonprofit. In 22 years of experience investigating pedophile rings, IRA has never obtained or possessed such material precisely because it is a criminal act.
Tim Ballard
The most troubling allegation in Lynn Packer’s recent report is that Tim Ballard allegedly claimed that M. Russell Ballard condoned their sexual involvement with him as part of OUR’s operations.
This was allegedly part of the “wife ruse” conducted by Ballard for OUR’s operations. If M. Russell Ballard did condone such actions, it would mean that a current Apostle endorsed Tim Ballard breaking the Law of Chastity. If the claim is false, it would mean that Tim Ballard used an Apostle’s name to convince women who volunteered or contracted with OUR to have sexual relations with him.
Ballard has denied having sexual intercourse with any woman other than his wife through intermediaries that IRA has spoken with. He claimed that he was excommunicated for attending strip clubs as part of OUR’s operations. According to Ballard, strip clubs were where the trafficking victims were located, and it was therefore necessary to go into the clubs for operational purposes. He allegedly brought along fake wives in order to give himself an out if traffickers tried to test him by offering him victims.
This claim is absurd on its face. A man who seeks out children for purchase is not going to have a problem indulging his appetites even if his wife is along for the transaction, and traffickers would pick up on this immediately even if Ballard tried to use his wife ruse to sidestep a trafficker’s test. A wife who was comfortable accompanying her husband on a trafficking purchase would not have any issue with her husband’s extracurricular activities.
Ballard’s lack of offense in the face of an increasingly litigious group of women who claimed he sexually harassed, groomed, and abused them is telling. Ballard is not mounting an offensive campaign, nor is he releasing the communications he had with female OUR operatives who performed the wife’s ruse with him. In all likelihood, Tim Ballard is engaged in a behind the scenes effort to settle the the allegations out of court, privately and discreetly. He will likely succeed, as the women have every reason to take a financial settlement to avoid the almost certain public pillorying they would endure should they engage in public civil litigation with OUR, Ballard, and Ballard’s various non profit and for profit entities.
OUR and Ballard have every reason to settle these claims quietly. Whatever the price of a settlement would be, it pales in comparison to the devastation OUR and Ballard would face if those women were to specify exactly what Ballard did. If Ballard did in fact invoke an Apostle’s name to compel those women into extramarital affairs, his exposure would be devastating, not just financially, but in terms of reputation. Ballard would be unable to raise a cent going forward, and his ability to obtain financial remuneration commensurate with that obtained through OUR and his various entities would be obliterated.
The Ballard allies who originally leapt to his defense, such as Glenn Beck, have openly backed away from him in recent days. Beck claimed to have spoken to multiple women who detailed the allegations against Tim Ballard, and he was prepared to go forward with a show detailing the specifics until he was told by the attorneys for those women to cease and desist. The reason for this is obvious: if those women go on record, Ballard has no reason to settle their claims quietly because the claims would be specific and on the record, broadcast by Glenn Beck and Blaze Media.
The explanation that Tim Ballard used M. Russell Ballard’s name to legitimate his sexual activity with OUR volunteers is far more likely the cause of the Church’s strongly worded public rebuke of Tim Ballard than Ballard’s alleged use of M. Russell Ballard’s name to raise funds for OUR and his business ventures. After all, M. Russell Ballard voluntarily affiliated himself with OUR, Liberty 89, and Slave Stealers. He cannot deny this, because too many witnesses exist to attest to M. Russell Ballard’s voluntary involvement in Tim Ballard’s business affairs.
For the LDS to publicly excoriate Tim Ballard, something else had to be at stake beyond a quibble over business or fundraising. Lynn Packer’s reporting yields a plausible alternative explanation, and that explanation is this: Tim Ballard invoked the name of an apostle to seduce the women he utilized the wife’s ruse with.
Conclusion
Tim Ballard’s ongoing silence, and his refusal to release the communications that should absolve him of wrongdoing if he did not engage in sexually inappropriate conduct, is damning. Combined with Glenn Beck’s 180 degree turn on the issue, and Lynn Packer’s devastating report on Ballard, it is looking increasingly likely that Tim Ballard is attempting to quietly settle the allegations against him by his accusers. If he succeeds, there is nothing to stop him from returning to the good graces of the LDS in time through rebaptism, and eventually selling his story as a redemptive comeback.
For the COJCLDS, the stakes are simple: Packer’s reporting details the SEC’s judgment against M. Russell Ballard for securities fraud, and the FTC’s sanctions against Ballard in other business ventures as well. That history is damning, as is the claim that M. Russell Ballard, as an apostle, made requests of a wealthy Latter Day Saint to loan or invest money with Ballard’s children and their businesses.
If true, this would show that M. Russell Ballard used his office as an apostle to enrich his children.2 Combined with Ballard’s prior legal issues with the SEC and the FTC, as well as his covert involvement in Tim Ballard’s Slave Stealers, such an allegation would be grounds for the LDS to look at M. Russell Ballard’s business dealings in the context of a High Council. The COJCLDS would likely prefer to discredit Tim Ballard, distance itself from his activities, and change the subject to Tim Ballard’s improprieties rather than the improprieties of M. Russell Ballard.
With Ballard approaching the end of his life, those within the Church who were aware of his business dealings with Ballard would recognize the potential liability to the Church and proceed accordingly. If their interests converged with those of Mitt Romney and Gordon Bowen, then Ballard would make a convenient sacrifice. Romney and the Republican establishment would rid themselves of the prospect of a second MAGA Republican from Utah in the U.S. Senate, and the Church would avoid the potential exposure of Senator Tim Ballard and questions about his entanglements with a sitting apostle.
Barring explicit revelations of sexual impropriety by Tim Ballard or evidence that ties Ballard and his associates to the LDS Church of Satan, this article will be the final foray into the Ballard saga by IRA. His excommunication was justified on the grounds of his association with Janet Russon, and the revelations by Lynn Packer demonstrate that there are likely additional grounds for that excommunication as well. IRA has ties to individuals within Ballard’s orbit, and if necessary, IRA is prepared to detail exactly what those ties are.
It is the position of this publication that OUR and Tim Ballard sold access to trafficking victims to the likes of Paul Hutchinson and other donors, thereby creating the conditions for Hutchinson to sexually assault at least one woman. This was recorded on video footage reviewed by the Davis County Attorneys Office. It is the position of IRA that OUR is not a credible organization, and should not be the recipient of any donations or support going forward until it releases every bit of documentation related to the allegations against Tim Ballard and the findings of the law firm it claimed to have hired to independently investigate those allegations.
It is the position of IRA that Tim Ballard should not be entrusted with donor funds for any nonprofit or for profit endeavour going forward based on his affiliation with Janet Russon and her unscriptural, satanic practices involving medium work and necromancy in communing with the spirits of dead LDS figures like Nephi.
Russon was paid a monthly consultant fee of $5,000 for her work, as well as $1,560 an hour for “hourly/operational readings” which produced an alleged 10,000 pages worth of psychic readings according to the Davis County Attorneys Office. She was eventually promoted to executive director of OUR subsidiary Children Need Families, with an annual salary of $122,000-$125,000. She had no apparent qualifications to run a nonprofit beyond her connection with Tim Ballard.
The issue with Russon’s reported compensation is simple. She does not appear in a single 990 filing for OUR, even though her compensation would easily be within excess of $100,000 with a base salary of $60,000 and an “hourly/operational” reading rate of $1,560. Russon produced some 10,000 pages worth of psychic readings in the possession of the Davis County Attorneys Office, at a reported rate of $1,560 an hour. She does not appear in any 990 tax filing for OUR, as an officer, an employee, or as an independent contractor.
How did OUR pay Russon at those rates while omitting her from their tax returns? Was she paid through a for profit subsidiary or a non profit subsidiary? The report of Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings makes it clear that Rawlings has some documentation that led him to believe that Russon was compensated through OUR.
These facts point to yet another indicator that OUR is an organization run without operational controls and protocols, and the most obvious and likely explanation is that OUR is run by Tim Ballard and his family members, many of who draw six figure salaries. The lack of internal controls led to Ballard being able to bring on Janet Russon and use her psychic readings as the basis for OUR’s operations. Not until women came forward to allege sexual impropriety did Tim Ballard ever face reprisals or pushback from the OUR board.
Even afterwards, OUR and Ballard have refused to operate in transparency over the findings of the independent investigation into Ballard’s alleged misconduct. Instead, OUR and Ballard have issued in a cryptic series of statements about Ballard’s departure. Those statements, coupled with the ongoing revelations about Ballard, OUR, and Ballard’s alleged misconduct, ought to strain the credulity of the credulous.
Unfortunately, there is no certainty that it will. Utah is the land of multi level marketing schemes, and a sales funnel for Satan in the form of nonprofits feeding into a for profit parent LLC is ideal for Utah and LDS business. Tim Ballard has enough money to make the allegations go away, and enough money to reinvent himself going forward. The truth is whatever the guy with the most money says it is in Tim Ballard’s rarefied air, where he hobnobs with the likes of Paul Hutchinson. As George Carlin said, it’s one big club, and you’re not in it.
The individual in question allegedly had involvement in sex clubs located in Salt Lake City, Cottonwood Heights, and Ogden. Two of the clubs were Menagerie and Playhouse, and multiple sources confirmed that the individual had a fetish for consuming the urine of his partners. One source who had worked with the subject on multiple projects detailed the subject’s belief system, which consisted of a blend of polygamous sealings combined with the notion that individuals are born without souls, and only through accruing energy from emotionally charged interactions could individuals obtain souls. Should an individual fail to obtain enough energy to form a soul during their lifetime, they would simply cease to exist. The subject is a Latter Day Saint, previously excommunicated on at least one occasion, but rebaptized afterwards. He has an association with the judge who presided in the Barbara Timothy-Gordon Bowen divorce as well. The subject traveled repeatedly via private jet to Las Vegas, where he and his associates would procure women for sexual purposes.
Despite what the poster claims, M. Russell Ballard is an officer of a nonprofit corporation, the COJCLDS, using his position within that nonprofit to enrich his family members. Such activity is potentially illegal on any number of fronts and could expose Ballard, his family members, and the Church itself to liability.
What do you think of George Webb's report?
"With the recent Tim Ballard reports coming out about how the CIA did not run a child trafficking sting operation at all as depicted in the movie Sounds of Freedom, people may remember me reporting about Ballard’s seven years ago calling out the fraud.
Instead, the CIA and Department of Homeland Security were using the excuse of child trafficking stings to run compromise operations on the political opponents of Mitt Romney and Cofer Black of the CIA.
I reported seven years ago that Ballard OUR (operation, underground railroad) was nothing of the sort, but rather a compromise operation to further the likes of billionaires Carlos Slim and Frank Giustra along with all their other CIA cronies."
https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-ballard-what-else-did
Has lynn packer addressed the allegations of their work or connection to cia mockingbird yet? Have they made their economic books transparent?