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Ervil LeBaron - Led a small sect of polygamous Mormon fundamentalists, and was convicted of involvement in the murder of two people and plotting to kill another person in 1981. [11] Alice Lenshina - Zambian head and founder of the Lumpa Church. Conflicts with the government over the sect's rejection of taxes led to a violent confrontation and ...
Greater Ministries International was an Evangelical Christian ministry that ran a Ponzi scheme in an affinity fraud that had taken nearly 500 million dollars from 18,000 people by the time it was shut down by federal authorities in August 1999. [1] Headed by Gerald Payne in Tampa, Florida, the ministry bribed church leaders around the United ...
They were doing good work: paying people’s bills, opening a food bank, moving needy people into their home. But it was massively stressful and nearly broke them financially. It drained Miller of ...
Robert Tilton (born June 7, 1946) is an American televangelist and the former pastor of the Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.At his ministry's peak in 1991, Tilton's infomercial-style program, Success-N-Life, aired in all 235 American television markets (on a daily basis in the majority of them) and brought in nearly $80 million per year; it was ...
State police said the former pastor stole between $50,000 and $100,000 during his time with the church.
An evangelical pastor was arrested in Las Vegas on drug and gun-related charges after counter-terrorism cops found him with multiple firearms — and thought he was attempting to mimic the ...
Rather, the person called a charlatan is being accused of resorting to quackery, pseudoscience, or other knowingly employed bogus means of impressing people in order to swindle victims by selling them worthless nostrums and similar goods or services that will not deliver on the promises made for them. One example of a charlatan is a 19th ...
A federal court jury convicted the man and his wife of putting false information in applications for COVID-19 relief funds.