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According to Dan Popkey of the ''[[Idaho Statesman]]'' and Roger Plothow and Marty Trillhaase of the Idaho Falls ''[[Post Register]]'', VanderSloot supported Idaho Democrat [[Larry EchoHawk]]’s 1994 [[gubernatorial]] campaign<ref name=Popkey/> and endorsed Democrat [[Ron J. Twilegar|Jackie Groves Twilegar]] for Idaho state [[Comptroller|controller]] in 2006,<ref name=Stallings1>{{Cite news|title=Stallings goes too far|url=http://www.postregister.com/story.php?accnum=1018-10062006&today=2006-10-06|accessdate=September 25, 2012|newspaper=[[Post Register]]|date=October 6, 2006|author=Roger Plothow|author2=Marty Trillhaase}}</ref><ref name=Popkey2>{{Cite news|last=Popkey|first=Dan|title=Twilegar is the best, but that may not be enough|url=http://idahoptv.org/idreports/showEditorial.cfm?StoryId=24122|accessdate=September 25, 2012|newspaper=[[Idaho Statesman]]|date=October 6, 2006}}</ref> but VanderSloot has otherwise favored and been a major donor to Idaho Republicans<ref name=Stallings1/><ref name=Popkey2/>, and he is “the state’s most boisterous conservative financier”.<ref name=Popkey/> As well, VanderSloot spent more than $100,000 on independent advertising on three winning judicial campaigns, two for [[Idaho Supreme Court]] and one for district judge in Bonneville County.<ref name=Popkey/> Vandersloot and Melaleuca were financial supporters of Concerned Citizens for Family Values, an organization that ran [[attack ads]] targeting incumbent Idaho Supreme Court Justice Cathy Silak during her 2000 re-election campaign against challenger Daniel T. Eismann.<ref name=Salon/><ref name=Murphy>{{Cite news|last=Murphy|first=Eamon|title=Mitt Romney's Money Man: Who Is Frank L. VanderSloot|url=http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/24/mitts-romneys-money-man-who-is-frank-l-vandersloot/|accessdate=September 23, 2012|newspaper=AOL DailyFinance|date=February 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name=Trillhaase>{{Cite news|last=Trillhaase|first=Marty|title=VanderSloot won Supreme Court race|url=http://idahoptv.org/idreports/showEditorial.cfm?StoryID=46584|accessdate=September 17, 2102|newspaper=[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]]|date=May 27, 2010}}</ref><ref name=FisherLMT1>{{Cite news|last=Fisher|first=Jim|title=If you buy radio stations, who needs attack ads?|url=http://idahoptv.org/idreports/showEditorial.cfm?StoryID=19167|accessdate=September 17, 2012|newspaper=[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]]|date=January 3, 2006}}</ref> The ads alleged that if Silak were re-elected, same-sex marriage and "[[partial-birth abortion]]" could become legal in Idaho.<ref name=Cheek>{{Cite book|last=Cheek|first=Kyle|title=Judicial Politics in Texas: Partisanship, Money, and Politics in State Courts|year=2005|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|location=New York, NY|coauthors=Champagne, Anthony|accessdate=September 23, 2012|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TW9R7YoVrc8C&dq=Judicial+Politics+in+Texas&source=gbs_navlinks_s|page=143}}</ref><ref name=Mayer>{{Cite book|last=Mayer|first=Martin|title=The Judges: A Penetrating Exploration of American Courts and of the New Decisions--Hard Decisions--They Must Make for a New Millennium|year=2006|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York, NY|pages=229|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xWQSiv34Dc4C&dq=%22Concerned+Citizens+for+Family+Values%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s}}</ref>
According to Dan Popkey of the ''[[Idaho Statesman]]'' and Roger Plothow and Marty Trillhaase of the Idaho Falls ''[[Post Register]]'', VanderSloot supported Idaho Democrat [[Larry EchoHawk]]’s 1994 [[gubernatorial]] campaign<ref name=Popkey/> and endorsed Democrat [[Ron J. Twilegar|Jackie Groves Twilegar]] for Idaho state [[Comptroller|controller]] in 2006,<ref name=Stallings1>{{Cite news|title=Stallings goes too far|url=http://www.postregister.com/story.php?accnum=1018-10062006&today=2006-10-06|accessdate=September 25, 2012|newspaper=[[Post Register]]|date=October 6, 2006|author=Roger Plothow|author2=Marty Trillhaase}}</ref><ref name=Popkey2>{{Cite news|last=Popkey|first=Dan|title=Twilegar is the best, but that may not be enough|url=http://idahoptv.org/idreports/showEditorial.cfm?StoryId=24122|accessdate=September 25, 2012|newspaper=[[Idaho Statesman]]|date=October 6, 2006}}</ref> but VanderSloot has otherwise favored and been a major donor to Idaho Republicans;<ref name=Stallings1/><ref name=Popkey2/> he has been described as “the state’s most boisterous conservative financier”.<ref name=Popkey/> As well, VanderSloot spent more than $100,000 on independent advertising on three winning judicial campaigns, two for [[Idaho Supreme Court]] and one for district judge in Bonneville County.<ref name=Popkey/> Vandersloot and Melaleuca were financial supporters of Concerned Citizens for Family Values, an organization that ran [[attack ads]] targeting incumbent Idaho Supreme Court Justice Cathy Silak during her 2000 re-election campaign against challenger Daniel T. Eismann.<ref name=Salon/><ref name=Murphy>{{Cite news|last=Murphy|first=Eamon|title=Mitt Romney's Money Man: Who Is Frank L. VanderSloot|url=http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/24/mitts-romneys-money-man-who-is-frank-l-vandersloot/|accessdate=September 23, 2012|newspaper=AOL DailyFinance|date=February 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name=Trillhaase>{{Cite news|last=Trillhaase|first=Marty|title=VanderSloot won Supreme Court race|url=http://idahoptv.org/idreports/showEditorial.cfm?StoryID=46584|accessdate=September 17, 2102|newspaper=[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]]|date=May 27, 2010}}</ref><ref name=FisherLMT1>{{Cite news|last=Fisher|first=Jim|title=If you buy radio stations, who needs attack ads?|url=http://idahoptv.org/idreports/showEditorial.cfm?StoryID=19167|accessdate=September 17, 2012|newspaper=[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]]|date=January 3, 2006}}</ref> The ads alleged that if Silak were re-elected, same-sex marriage and "[[partial-birth abortion]]" could become legal in Idaho.<ref name=Cheek>{{Cite book|last=Cheek|first=Kyle|title=Judicial Politics in Texas: Partisanship, Money, and Politics in State Courts|year=2005|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|location=New York, NY|coauthors=Champagne, Anthony|accessdate=September 23, 2012|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TW9R7YoVrc8C&dq=Judicial+Politics+in+Texas&source=gbs_navlinks_s|page=143}}</ref><ref name=Mayer>{{Cite book|last=Mayer|first=Martin|title=The Judges: A Penetrating Exploration of American Courts and of the New Decisions--Hard Decisions--They Must Make for a New Millennium|year=2006|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York, NY|pages=229|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xWQSiv34Dc4C&dq=%22Concerned+Citizens+for+Family+Values%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s}}</ref>


In 2002, VanderSloot and Melaleuca contributed more than $50,000 opposing the election bid of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Keith Roark, a former Blaine County prosecutor, for Idaho Attorney General. The contributions included a $35,000 donation to Roark’s Republican opponent, [[Lawrence Wasden]], and a $16,500 donation to Concerned Citizens for Family Values, an organization run by Vandersloot, to finance a radio [[attack ad]] against Roark in Eastern Idaho.<ref name=LMT1>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BnZfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bC8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5769,251196&dq=melaleuca+multilevel&hl=en "Company Files Suit Against Roark," Associated Press in ''Lewiston Morning Tribune,'' November 2, 2002]</ref> That year, VanderSloot and Melaleuca also donated $7,000 towards the 2002 gubernatorial campaign of Republican [[Dirk Kempthorne]].<ref name=SR1>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=20031010&id=stwnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yPIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2815,8804743 "Kempthorne Defends Use of Interest-Free Loan," Associated Press in ''The Spokesman-Review,'' October 10, 2003]</ref>
In 2002, VanderSloot and Melaleuca contributed more than $50,000 opposing the election bid of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Keith Roark, a former Blaine County prosecutor, for Idaho Attorney General. The contributions included a $35,000 donation to Roark’s Republican opponent, [[Lawrence Wasden]], and a $16,500 donation to Concerned Citizens for Family Values, an organization run by Vandersloot, to finance a radio [[attack ad]] against Roark in Eastern Idaho.<ref name=LMT1>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BnZfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bC8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5769,251196&dq=melaleuca+multilevel&hl=en "Company Files Suit Against Roark," Associated Press in ''Lewiston Morning Tribune,'' November 2, 2002]</ref> That year, VanderSloot and Melaleuca also donated $7,000 towards the 2002 gubernatorial campaign of Republican [[Dirk Kempthorne]].<ref name=SR1>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=20031010&id=stwnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yPIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2815,8804743 "Kempthorne Defends Use of Interest-Free Loan," Associated Press in ''The Spokesman-Review,'' October 10, 2003]</ref>

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Frank L. VanderSloot (born August 14, 1948) is an American entrepreneur, radio network owner, and cattle rancher. He is chief executive officer of Melaleuca, Inc., an Idaho Falls, Idaho,-headquartered multi-level marketing company that sells nutritional supplements, cleaning supplies, and personal-care products.[1][2] His other business interests include Riverbend Communications,[3] a group of broadcast radio stations, and commercial cattle and horse ranch operations in Idaho and Utah.[4][5][6] VanderSloot also serves on the board of directors and executive board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.[7][8] He was listed among the 400 wealthiest men in the United States by Forbes Magazine[1] and as the nation’s 92nd largest landowner.[9]

VanderSloot served as a national finance co-chair for both Mitt Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. [10][11] He contributed $1.1 million and helped to raise between $2 million and $5 million for Romney’s 2012 campaign.[12][13]

VanderSloot has been a major financial contributor to Republican campaigns and has financed attack ads against several Idaho Democratic judicial candidates. His public stances on gay rights issues have generated controversy among journalists and gay rights groups.

VanderSloot sponsors an annual Independence Day fireworks display (the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration),[14] billed as the largest west of the Mississippi, and was the primary funder of the American Heritage Charter School in Idaho Falls.[15][16][17]

Early life and education

Born to a Dutch immigrant family, VanderSloot grew up on a small farm in Cocolalla, Idaho. His father, Frank (Peter Francis VanderSloot; b. 1913, d. 1982), worked as a painter for the Northern Pacific Railway and owned a small ranch.[18] Vandersloot attended Sandpoint High School, graduating in 1966. At the age of 16, he converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and later served on a 2-year LDS mission in the Netherlands.[8]

Vandersloot paid for his college education college by selling cream from a cow his father had given him, working at a laundromat, selling beef jerky in bars, and teaching Dutch to future missionaries."[8][19] He earned an associate’s degree in business at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, and in 1972, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in business administration.[20]

Career

Early career

Before his Melaleuca days, VanderSloot was "in management jobs for 9 1/2 years at Automatic Data Processing in three cities." [21] He left ADP to work at Cox Communications in Vancouver, Washington, where he became a regional vice president. [22]


Oil of Melaleuca, Inc.

In September of 1985, VanderSloot was offered the helm of a startup multi-level marketing business (Oil of Melaleuca, Inc.) in Idaho Falls, Idaho by his brother-in-law Roger Ball and Roger's brother Allen Ball.[8][23] The company had serious problems. On VanderSloot’s third day with the company, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation of its practices out of concern that the company’s salespeople were making exaggerated medical claims. In addition to regulatory concerns, the company used a marketing strategy that lured people into buying thousands of dollars of inventory and “offended VanderSloot's sense of fairness." [8] The company failed to achieve significant market share. The partners shut down the company later in 1985.[2][8]

CEO of Melaleuca, Inc.

In 1985, five months after the closure of Oil of Melaleuca, Vandersloot started a new company, Melaleuca, Inc., serving as CEO and president.[8] The new company eliminated the former organization’s requirement that contractors purchase and warehouse products without the guarantee of being able to sell them. Contractors would still receive commissions from each sale that they made and from signing up new contractors, but products would be shipped by the company to the consumer.[22] Half of Oil of Melaleuca's 1,000 distributors quit because they could not make quick profits by passing along inventory to salespeople below them in their networks[1]. VanderSloot hired a new research and development team whose work eventually resulted in nine U.S. patents for the company,[1] including a muscle relaxant and analgesic containing melaleuca oil, also known as tea tree oil.[24] The current company sells nutritional supplements, cleaning supplies, and personal-care products, which are distributed through multilevel marketing.[1][25][26][12]

Melaleuca operates internationally, with U.S. operations centered in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Knoxville, Tennessee.[27] Melaleuca was recognized on the Inc. 500 for five consecutive years, and in 2000 it was recognized as an Inc. magazine 500 Hall of Fame business.[2][28] [29] [30][31] [32]

According to VanderSloot, Melaleuca had gross sales in excess of one billion dollars in 2011.[33] In 2004, 25% of company revenue came from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.[1] A 2006 statistics states that 95% of households that buy Melaleuca products are repeat consumers.[21] Melaleuca is a member of the United States Direct Selling Association (DSA),[34] a trade association. In 2008, VanderSloot began a 3-year term as one of the eight members of the DSA's board of directors.[35] In December 2009 Vandersloot and his wife contributed $10,000 to the DSA’s political action committee.[36]

VanderSloot states that the company has a "business model for those people who want to supplement their income."[2] According to Dan Popkey of the Idaho Statesman, Melaleuca had 800,000 customers for its household and nutritional products {as of|2011}}. Roughly 37 percent were also part of the company's sales force of independent contractors, referred to as “marketing executives", and about 90 percent of the sales force averaged less than $2,100 in annual income from Melaleuca.[8] The average annual income for 72 percent of Melaleuca's marketing executives, according to a report issued by the company in 2006, As of  2006 $90. As executives recruit, their title changes and they make more money.[37]

In 1997, Vandersloot received a warning letter from the FDA to stop marketing Melaleuca dietary supplements ProVex, ProVex-Plus, and Replenex as drugs for the treatment of disease conditions in contravention of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.[38][39] The warning, issued subsequent to an FDA inspection of a Melaleuca manufacturing facility, noted that the products carried claims that their use resulted in "halting and possibly reversing the process of articular cartilage degeneration" and that they were "an alternative in the treatment of degenerative joint disease or common osteoarthritis." Melaleuca subsequently announced that the claims would no longer be used for marketing the products.

Ranching

VanderSloot owns Riverbend Ranch, which is one of the largest operations in the United States for both purebred and commercial cattle. Its mission is “providing ranchers in the Intermountain West with the best genetics at an affordable price”. Its annual bull sale is one of the world’s biggest. [4][5]


VanderSloot also owns Fort Ranch Quarter Horses in Promontory, Utah.[6]

Broadcasting

VanderSloot owns Riverbend Communications, a group of radio broadcast stations in Eastern Idaho that he purchased from Bonneville Communications in 2006. Riverbend Communications operates KLCE Classy 97, KCVI Kbear 101, KTHK 105.5 The Hawk, KFTZ Z103, KBLI News-Talk AM 690 - 1260, and KBLY AM 1260.[3][40]

Snake River Cheese factory

In 1994, VanderSloot was approached by Firth, Idaho, dairy farmer Gaylen Clayson with a plea to invest in the Snake River Cheese factory in Blackfoot, Idaho, after Kraft Foods had announced a decision to close it. In response, VanderSloot bought a $1 million interest in the plant, which closed anyway within six months, after an investment company assumed control. Dairymen crowded into a local meeting hall afterward to make another plea to VanderSloot, who thereupon paid off a $2 million debt owed to the dairymen, staffed the plant with his own personnel and supplemented the milking herd with two thousand head of cows.[41][42] He later brought in Beatrice Cheese, a subsidiary of ConAgra, to run the factory. In 1999, the company netted $278 million in sales. In 2000, VanderSloot sold all of his interest in the company to Suprema Specialties. "My business is Melaleuca and that's what I need to pay attention to," he said.[41] In 2006, the factory, which by then had been renamed as the Blackfoot Cheese Company, was sold to Sartori Foods.[43]

Paving and construction

VanderSloot was the owner of HighStone (formerly Eagle Rock Construction; RBH Gravel; VIP Construction) an Idaho Falls-based asphalt construction and maintenance company.[44] HighStone’s projects included a $421,000 state government contract to repair a stretch of Idaho State Highway 33 in Idaho Falls,[45] as well as work on road repairs in Rexburg.[44] In September 2011, HighStone merged with DePatco, a family-owned heavy construction company in St. Anthony, Idaho. The merger deal created the largest locally-owned company in the industry in eastern Idaho.[44]

Net worth

In 2004, VanderSloot was included on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans.[1] According to Forbes, VanderSloot was then worth $700 million and his company Melaleuca, for which VanderSloot owned 55% of the voting stock and 44% of the nonvoting stock, was valued at $1.4 billion. Although VanderSloot does not publically disclose his personal worth, estimates in 2011 suggested that Melaleuca would be valued between $3.2 billion and $3.9 billion were it to go public.[8] In 2012, VanderSloot was listed by The Land Report as the 92nd largest landowner in the United States. [46] In 2006, Ridenbaugh Press listed Vandersloot at number 15 on its list of the 25 most influential people in the state of Idaho.[47]

Public activity

United States Chamber of Commerce

VanderSloot is on the board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce,[7] and in 2004 he was named to the organization's executive board.[8]

Political campaign financing

According to Dan Popkey of the Idaho Statesman and Roger Plothow and Marty Trillhaase of the Idaho Falls Post Register, VanderSloot supported Idaho Democrat Larry EchoHawk’s 1994 gubernatorial campaign[8] and endorsed Democrat Jackie Groves Twilegar for Idaho state controller in 2006,[48][49] but VanderSloot has otherwise favored and been a major donor to Idaho Republicans;[48][49] he has been described as “the state’s most boisterous conservative financier”.[8] As well, VanderSloot spent more than $100,000 on independent advertising on three winning judicial campaigns, two for Idaho Supreme Court and one for district judge in Bonneville County.[8] Vandersloot and Melaleuca were financial supporters of Concerned Citizens for Family Values, an organization that ran attack ads targeting incumbent Idaho Supreme Court Justice Cathy Silak during her 2000 re-election campaign against challenger Daniel T. Eismann.[50][51][52][53] The ads alleged that if Silak were re-elected, same-sex marriage and "partial-birth abortion" could become legal in Idaho.[54][55]

In 2002, VanderSloot and Melaleuca contributed more than $50,000 opposing the election bid of Democrat Keith Roark, a former Blaine County prosecutor, for Idaho Attorney General. The contributions included a $35,000 donation to Roark’s Republican opponent, Lawrence Wasden, and a $16,500 donation to Concerned Citizens for Family Values, an organization run by Vandersloot, to finance a radio attack ad against Roark in Eastern Idaho.[56] That year, VanderSloot and Melaleuca also donated $7,000 towards the 2002 gubernatorial campaign of Republican Dirk Kempthorne.[57]

In 2006 VanderSloot and his wife Belinda donated $16,000 through the PAC Citizens for Truth and Justice, and via direct payments for advertising, for attack ads against Idaho 7th District Court Judge James Herndon, a Democrat, in a three-way race against challengers Darren Simpson and DaLon Esplin.[58][59] Ads criticizing Herndon also aired on radio stations run by Riverbend Communications, owned by VanderSloot and his wife Belinda.[58]

In 2010 Vandesloot funded two political action committees (PACs) that launched last-minute attack ads against Idaho 2nd District Judge John Bradbury, a Democrat, during his electoral run for state Supreme Court against Republican incumbent Justice Roger Burdick.[60][61][62][63] VanderSloot donated $19,000 to the PAC Idaho Citizens for Justice[64] and financed the PAC Citizens for Commonsense Solutions.[65] Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa announced that the PACs were fined $1,900 collectively for failing to appoint a certified treasurer prior to accepting contributions from VanderSloot and for failing to disclose large expenditures for its attack ads before the election, as required by law.[61][62]

VanderSloot served as the national finance co-chair for Mitt Romney's unsuccessful bid to serve as the Republican Party's 2008 presidential candidate. In 2012, VanderSloot was chosen as national finance co-chair for Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[11] In 2012, VanderSloot’s companies contributed a total of $1.1 million to the Restore Our Future political action committee, a group that supports Romney for President.[12] According to VanderSloot, he raised between $2 million and $5 million for the Romney campaign.[13]

Obama campaign mention

On April 20, 2012, a website operated by Barack Obama’s campaign team included VanderSloot on a list of 8 major donors to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign who have "questionable and troubling records on various issues" and described him as "litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement".[66][67][68][69] VanderSloot waged an aggressive response, making a series of appearances on the Fox News Channel in which he called for donations to Romney in protest of the list.[13] VanderSloot accused the Obama campaign of targeting him unfairly and said that he went through "living hell" and told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that his company Melaleuca had lost about two hundred customers in the first two weeks after after his mention on the Obama campaign website;[67][70] Two days later he told the Idaho Statesman that “unbelievable” and “unexpected” national support was turning out to be good for business.[71]

In July 2012, VanderSloot said that was the subject of two new federal audits, one by the Internal Revenue Service and the other by the U.S. Department of Labor.[67] VanderSloot said that the timing of the audits was curious and questionable, claiming that he received notice of the IRS audit two months after he was "singled out by the Obama campaign;" however, he noted that he did not think that the President was directly behind the audits.[67][72][73][74]

LGBT issues

In 2012, Vandersloot stated that "gay people should have the same freedoms and rights as any other individual."[75] However, his controversial stances on certain issues of interest to the gay community have drawn criticism from journalists and gay rights advocates.[50][11][76][77][12][78][79][80][81]

In 1999 VanderSloot spent an undisclosed sum to sponsor billboards around Idaho asking "Should public television promote the homosexual lifestyle to your children? Think about it!”[76] in reference to It's Elementary, a 1999 PBS documentary exploring how four schools dealt with homosexuality.[1][11] VanderSloot's wife donated $100,000 to the Proposition 8 initiative to rescind gay marriage in California, and the the call center of VanderSloot’s company Meleleuca was used to persuade California voters to pass the initiative.[82] Vandersloot's efforts and his wife's donation drew criticism from the Human Rights Campaign.[79]

In 2006, VanderSloot issued critical statements[83][84] regarding an award-winning series of investigative articles[85][86] in the Idaho Falls Post Register about incidents of child molestation by a Boy Scout director in the Grand Teton Council. Reporter Peter Zuckerman wrote that the Mormon Church and Idaho Boy Scout officials had received prior reports of some of the incidents at the Council's Camp Little Lemhi and that the director was a pedophile, but had failed to take appropriate action. Zuckerman also reported on the 1983 rape of a junior counselor by an Idaho Scout camp swimming instructor, and the case of a Scoutmaster counselor at Camp Little Lemhi who was convicted of lewd conduct for molesting a Scout.[87]

VanderSloot took out full-page advertisements in the Post Register in which he challenged aspects of Zuckerman's stories and devoted several paragraphs to establishing that Zuckerman was gay.[8][71][76][78] One of the advertisements stated that "the Boy Scout’s position of not letting gay men be scout leaders, and the LDS Church’s position that marriage should be between a man and a woman may have caused [the reporter] [sic] to attack the scouts and the LDS Church through his journalism."[88] Another advertisement said that:

there is nothing wrong with having homosexual reporters, but since the Boy Scouts’ policy of not allowing homosexual men to be scout leaders has produced so much anger against the scouts from the homosexual community, it seems that if the Post Register had wanted a fair and balanced story on the Boy Scouts, they would have assigned a reporter who did not have a personal ax to grind.[84]

VanderSloot was accused of outing Zuckerman.[11][71][12][76][50][89][80][90] In 2012, VanderSloot denied the charge, saying that Zuckerman had already posted his sexual orientation on a public website, that a local radio show and the community had been discussing the fact and that he, Vandersloot, had attempted to defend Zuckerman's motives;[91] Post Register editor Dean Miller, however, wrote later that Zuckerman's sexual orientation had been known only by Zuckerman's family and a few of his close friends and colleagues.[50][76][78]

VanderSloot also claimed that Zuckerman's articles were inaccurate, untruthful, and sensationalized;[91][8] Miller asserted that it was VanderSloot's ads that contained "serious mischaracterizations, errors of fact, and glaring omissions".[78] Zuckerman’s investigative reporting on the Grand Teton pedophile story in the Post Register was awarded the Scripps Howard First Amendment prize,[92][78] and follow-up reports, based on Zuckerman’s investigations, by Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism[78] and PBS Exposé[86] received the Mirror Award from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications[93] and an Emmy Award nomination for best documentary,[94] respectively.

The Post Register criticized VanderSloot for publishing the names of the victims in the Grand Teton pedophile case, to which VanderSloot responded "we feel we deserve every bit of criticism leveled at us by the Post Register for our carelessness...for that we are truly sorry”.[95]

According to VanderSloot, he had employed the father of two of the victims, after the publication of Zuckerman's articles; helped broker a settlement between the Boy Scouts and one family; and gave one victim $30,000.[8]

Defamation lawsuit threats

According to Rachel Maddow and other sources, VanderSloot has threatened defamation lawsuits, copyright infringement and other legal action against critics and outlets that have published adversely critical views, including Maddow, Forbes magazine, lawyer Glenn Greenwald, Mother Jones Magazine, and Idaho journalist Jody May-Chang.[50][77]

Philanthropy

VanderSloot created the Melaleuca Foundation in 2001 to help families affected by 9/11 and it was granted private 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation status by the IRS in 2003. [96] [97] The Melaleuca Foundation has been a financial contributor to the Santa Lucia Children's Home (Hogar Santa Lucia), an orphanage in Quito, Ecuador.[98] In 2007, VanderSloot's company Melaleuca received the Salvation Army Others Award for helping with relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina.[99]

Each year since 1992, Melaleuca has organized the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration, in Idaho Falls.[100] The event is billed as the largest Independence Day fireworks display west of the Mississippi. [101]

In 2012, it was announced that Vandersloot would be funding, via the Vandersloot Foundation,[102] the new American Heritage Charter School, a K-12 charter school scheduled to open in Idaho Falls in 2013.[15][16][17] The school, which describes itself as “a patriotic choice for parents” with a focus on “individual freedoms and free market economics”, is modeled after a similar charter school, the North Valley Academy in Gooding Idaho, and bases its curriculum on the Core Knowledge Program established by E.D. Hirsch.

Awards

In 1998, VanderSloot received the Idaho Business Leader of the Year award from Idaho State University.[103] [104] In 2001, he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the U.S. Northwestern region.[105] [106][107] He was inducted into the Idaho Hall of Fame in 2007[108] and received the Idaho Hometown Hero medal in 2011.[109][110]

Personal life

Vandersloot has been married to Belinda VanderSloot (née Boyock) since 1995 and they currently reside in Idaho Falls, ID. Together they have fourteen children: six from two of Frank VanderSloot’s prior marriages, and eight from Belinda VanderSloot’s first marriage.[8][111] Frank VanderSloot was previously married to Kathleen VanderSloot (née Kathleen Zundel), his first wife, and Vivian VanderSloot, his third wife.[112][113]

See also

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