A Georgia nonprofit faces a lawsuit from a local businessman who claims it illegitimately took ownership of a $1.5 million property on Lake Lanier.
The Church at War Hill in Dawsonville, Georgia / Photo via Google Maps
In January, Asta Quattrocchi requested a summary judgment against Isaiah 53 Charity, Inc., which he accuses of exploiting his wealthy father for donations including the lake house and luxury cars—donations his father believed God was telling him to make.
But Quattrocchi argues the nonprofit doesn’t actually own the lake house—because his father gave it to him first.
The nonprofit says that doesn’t matter because Quattrocchi surrendered the deed.
Partnership to “help people”
Isaiah 53 Charity was founded in 2021 by Christian Allen and Peter Wagg, two pastors affiliated with Church at War Hill, a 4,000-member church network based in Dawson, Georgia, that has come under public scrutiny for recent police and regulatory investigations.
Earlier that same year, Quattrocchi’s father, Cary Quattrocchi, befriended Allen and began attending War Hill. Moved by compulsive thoughts that “maybe God’s going to take me,” as Cary phrased it in a pretrial deposition shared with MinistryWatch, he told Allen and Wagg he wanted to give away his possessions “to help people,” and he wanted the pastors to help him do it.
That relationship motivated the creation of Isaiah 53 Charity. In so doing, it also pitted the younger Quattrocchi against the pastors and his father, who he says was experiencing a mental health crisis.
The lawsuit
At the January motion, attorneys established a timeline of ownership. In 2021, the elder Quattrocchi deeded the property—including a house, a 19-boat dock on Lake Lanier and an additional unpermitted structure—to an LLC he had created, which Allen and Wagg joined. In 2022, the LLC dissolved and deeded the land to the newly formed Isaiah 53 Charity, where Allen now serves as CEO.
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However, Cary Quattrocchi had previously given his son Asta’s company a quitclaim deed to the lake property. Cary then signed a “Transfer of Ownership” document giving Asta all his “earthly possessions,” including even his “trash.” Only after retrieving the quitclaim deed and ripping it up did Cary give the lake house to the LLC.
A sparse paper trail for the various transfers, partnerships and legal entities—including an additional LLC connected with the lake house—makes the legal ramifications of these contradictory actions ambiguous.
The plaintiff seeks cancellation of all quitclaim deeds created after the original deed was destroyed. The defense insists the land belongs to Isaiah 53 Charity, but argues that if the land reverts to the plaintiff, the nonprofit should be compensated for $80,000 it spent on tearing down the unpermitted building.
Asta Quattrocchi agrees he should pay, but only the far lower $16,500 he says was originally quoted for the project. He criticized Allen for spending so high above the estimate while using his own landscape supply company and his father’s landscaping company for a portion of the job—details Allen confirmed during his deposition.
Asta Quattrocchi told MinistryWatch he initially supported his father’s wishes to donate through Allen and Wagg—so much so that Asta Quattrocchi himself signed over the three cars to be sold to a local dealer. But when Isaiah 53 Charity walked away from the dealer’s high valuations, kept the Lamborghini Aventador and sold the other two—by “word of mouth,” according to Allen—at lower prices, Asta Quattrocchi suspected fraud.
During pretrial questioning, Allen struggled to answer whether the nonprofit had yet funded any charitable causes—only vaguely referencing an unspecified donation in connection with his personal volunteer work. Wagg could name none at all.
“As far as I have been involved, I don’t know,” Wagg said. “I haven’t seen any.”
“They put on a good face. I honestly should have seen it coming,” Asta Quattrocchi said.
However, the defense argues that liability concerns stemming from the lawsuit make it difficult for Isaiah 53 Charity to sell the vehicle or put the lake house to charitable use at this time.
“These two boys are scared to do anything,” said the attorney for Allen, Wagg and Cary Quattrocchi during the motion to dismiss.
Allen declined to speak to MinistryWatch but said his attorney would soon release a statement.
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