Fraud – Tag – MinistryWatch
This marks one year since MinistryWatch began our quarterly survey of the leaders of the largest Christian ministries in the country. The results are summarized below.
Each quarter, MinistryWatch conducts a survey of the leaders of the largest 1,000 Christian ministries in the country.
The executive secretly used his LLC to pocket nearly $155K dedicated to the school’s website and branding overhaul
A judge has sentenced a former executive at Southeastern University to 15 months in prison for wire fraud.
A Florida pastor arrested for fraud charges in obtaining $8 million in COVID-19 relief funds for the “ministry” he founded has been determined to be incompetent to stand trial by a psychiatrist ordered to conduct ...
Two Christian ministry leaders in Florida have been arrested for their part in fraudulently obtaining COVID relief funds totaling over $8 million.
Three people claiming to be pastors in the Houston area admitted to using a now-defunct church to commit bank and wire fraud.
A pastor in Tyler, Texas, and his son have recently pleaded guilty to charges of stealing from an elderly couple in his congregation, Open Door Bible Church.
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Charles J. Southall, III, a New Orleans pastor who was charged initially for unlawfully transferring $100K to his private accounts, has pleaded guilty to laundering close to $900K.
The former administrator of a Pennsylvania-based Episcopal nonprofit insurance corporation is under investigation for fraud after a forensic audit uncovered a $1.4 million discrepancy in the organization’s books.
A scathing investigation of former head megachurch pastor Stovall Weems commissioned by Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, paints a picture of a self-absorbed leader who manipulated employees, fraudulently used the church’s money, and sometimes appeared ...
