TBN Makes Founders Filthy Rich.
More revelations are coming out in the lawsuit filed by the granddaughter of Paul and Jan Crouch, owners of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and they include details of a lavish lifestyle that includes multiple private jets and homes just for dogs.
The claims â by Brittany Koper, whose grandfather Paul Crouch founded TBN, and by Joseph McVeigh, another family member â describe exorbitant spending on mansions in California, Tennessee and Florida, private jets and even a $100,000 (£63,000) mobile home to house the dogs of Crouchâs flamboyant wife, Janiceâ¦
According to the lawsuit, reported in US newspapers, Paul Crouch Sr obtained a $50m luxury jet for his personal use through a âsham loanâ, while church funds â many of which come from donations during events like its âPraise-a-thonsâ â paid for the dogsâ mobile home.
McVeighâs lawsuit makes the most damning allegations, claiming âunlawful and unreported income distributions to Trinity Broadcastingâs directorsâ with âmultiple jet aircraft, including a $50m Global Express luxury jet aircraft purchased for the personal use of the Crouches through a sham loan ⦠as well as an $8m Hawker jet aircraft purchased by Trinity Broadcasting for the personal use of director Janice Crouchâ.
It also describes the purchase of âmultiple motor vehicles, including a $100,000 motor home purchased by Trinity Broadcasting as a mobile residence for director Janice Crouchâs dogsâ.
Directors of the network are also accused of misusing funds to cover up sex scandals, including the alleged âcover-up and destruction of evidence concerning a bloody sexual assault involving Trinity Broadcasting and affiliated Holy Land Experience employees; the cover-up of director Janice Crouchâs affair with a staff member at the Holy Land Experience; the cover-up of director Paul Crouchâs use of Trinity Broadcasting funds to pay for a legal settlement with Enoch Lonnie Ford (a former TBN employee who said he had a homosexual affair with [founder] Paul Crouch)â.
In other words, business as usual for these televangelist con men. These are people who push the âprosperity gospel,â which claims that if you âsow your seed of faithâ â by sending them money, of course â then God will send it back to you tenfold or a hundredfold. If they really believed that, of course, theyâd be giving their money away rather than begging you to send it to them. But they donât. Because itâs a big scam.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/28/tbn-makes-founders-filthy-rich-film-at-11/
More revelations are coming out in the lawsuit filed by the granddaughter of Paul and Jan Crouch, owners of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and they include details of a lavish lifestyle that includes multiple private jets and homes just for dogs.
The claims â by Brittany Koper, whose grandfather Paul Crouch founded TBN, and by Joseph McVeigh, another family member â describe exorbitant spending on mansions in California, Tennessee and Florida, private jets and even a $100,000 (£63,000) mobile home to house the dogs of Crouchâs flamboyant wife, Janiceâ¦
According to the lawsuit, reported in US newspapers, Paul Crouch Sr obtained a $50m luxury jet for his personal use through a âsham loanâ, while church funds â many of which come from donations during events like its âPraise-a-thonsâ â paid for the dogsâ mobile home.
McVeighâs lawsuit makes the most damning allegations, claiming âunlawful and unreported income distributions to Trinity Broadcastingâs directorsâ with âmultiple jet aircraft, including a $50m Global Express luxury jet aircraft purchased for the personal use of the Crouches through a sham loan ⦠as well as an $8m Hawker jet aircraft purchased by Trinity Broadcasting for the personal use of director Janice Crouchâ.
It also describes the purchase of âmultiple motor vehicles, including a $100,000 motor home purchased by Trinity Broadcasting as a mobile residence for director Janice Crouchâs dogsâ.
Directors of the network are also accused of misusing funds to cover up sex scandals, including the alleged âcover-up and destruction of evidence concerning a bloody sexual assault involving Trinity Broadcasting and affiliated Holy Land Experience employees; the cover-up of director Janice Crouchâs affair with a staff member at the Holy Land Experience; the cover-up of director Paul Crouchâs use of Trinity Broadcasting funds to pay for a legal settlement with Enoch Lonnie Ford (a former TBN employee who said he had a homosexual affair with [founder] Paul Crouch)â.
In other words, business as usual for these televangelist con men. These are people who push the âprosperity gospel,â which claims that if you âsow your seed of faithâ â by sending them money, of course â then God will send it back to you tenfold or a hundredfold. If they really believed that, of course, theyâd be giving their money away rather than begging you to send it to them. But they donât. Because itâs a big scam.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/28/tbn-makes-founders-filthy-rich-film-at-11/