Warren Foote, in a letter to his brother George, defends early Church leaders from the charge they were engaged in "bogus money-making" or were made rich by the Kirtland Bank.
Warren Foote, Letter to George Foote, March 14, 1846, repr. Autobiography of Warren Foote, 3 vols. (Nauvoo: Nauvoo Land and Records Research Center, n.d.), 1:78
Concerning the leaders of the Church of Latter Day Saints getting rich by the Kirtland Bank, I say that it is false. So also is the bogus money making. You seem to roll these lies as a sweet morsel under your tongue. I now caution you to beware lest you are “left to believe a lie that you may be damned.”