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James Orsen Bakker (/ ˈ b eɪ k ər /; [1] born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye.
In return for a promised lifetime annual four-day vacation stay, 165,000 people had donated $1,000 to Jim Bakker's planned Heritage USA hotel tower; each donor received $6.54 in compensation. [16] Starting in 1987, Bakker's legal and personal troubles made headlines, and in September 1989, Hurricane Hugo caused severe damage to many of the ...
Composition of state and local tax revenues by sales taxes (brown), property taxes (white), licenses and other fees (grey), individual and corporate income taxes (green) in 2007. Determining the value of property is a critical aspect of property taxation, as such value determines the amount of tax due.
Court documents filed in Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott's 2022 divorce case included detailed lists of personal property, from vehicles to trailers, that had been owned by the sheriff, his ex ...
Schmitt sought an injunction ordering Bakker to stop selling Silver Solution as a treatment for the coronavirus on his streaming TV program, The Jim Bakker Show. Jim Bakker seeks suit dismissal ...
Bakker admits no wrongdoing in the settlement
The Observer reported that the Internal Revenue Service still holds Bakker and Roe Messner liable for personal income taxes owed from the 1980s when they were building the PTL empire, taxes assessed after the IRS revoked PTL's nonprofit status. Messner said that the original tax amount was about $500,000, with penalties and interest accounting ...
Jim Bakker was then exposed for illegally misusing money raised by the church, convicted of fraud and sentenced to 45 years in federal prison. (He ended up serving five.)