With all of the dissensions and disputations going on among the Nephite it is rather astonishing that they had elected a strong religious-oriented governor. His name was Lachoneus.
The righteous judge Lachoneus received a rather amazing letter from the supreme leader of the Gadianton robbers. The letter started out with a classical example of the "flattering words" that criminally-minded confidence schemers are experts in using.