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On November 5, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
Joseph Smith, Jr. - The founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was "subjected to approximately thirty criminal actions" during his life. Another source reports Smith was arrested at least 42 times. [28] Smith was killed by a mob while in jail awaiting trial on charges of treason against Illinois.
Its founder Robert F. Smith reached a non-prosecution agreement with the United States Department of Justice, agreeing in October 2020 to assist the DOJ in a case against Brockman who was charged that month with what the DOJ called the "largest ever" tax fraud scheme by a U.S. citizen, and to pay a fine of $139 million.
In 2010, Smith received the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. [111] In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate from Huston-Tillotson University. [112] In 2016, Cornell University named the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering after him, following a donation.
Religious fraud is a term used for civil [1] [2] or criminal fraud carried out in the name of a religion [3] [4] or within a religion, e.g. false claims to being kosher [5] [6] or tax fraud. [ 7 ] A specific form of religious fraud is pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus ), whereby one employs lies and/or deception in order to convince others of the ...
William J. Benson, the co-author of the book The Law that Never Was (in which Benson had argued that the Sixteenth Amendment was not properly ratified), was convicted of tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns in connection with over $100,000 of unreported income, and his conviction was upheld on appeal. He was sentenced to four ...
The redemption movement is an offshoot of the Posse Comitatus, [10] an American far right organization which was established in 1969 by leaders of the white supremacist Christian Identity sect. The Posse's beliefs were rooted in antisemitism and they saw income tax, debt-based currency and debt collection as tools of Jewish control of the ...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Code, 26 United States Code section 7201, provides: Sec. 7201. Attempt to evade or defeat tax Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $100,000 ($500,000 ...