 |
|
| |
|
 |
 |
at Global Oneness Community.
Share your dreams and let others help you with the interpretation!
Dream Sharing Forum
|
 |
Jim Bakker - Scandals |  | Jim Bakker - Scandals: Encyclopedia II - Jim Bakker - Scandals |  | On March 19, 1987, following threats of the revelation of the payoff to former secretary Jessica Hahn, whom Bakker's staff members had paid $265,000 to keep secret her sexual services to him, Bakker resigned from the PTL. Jerry Falwell called Bakker a liar, embezzler, sexual deviate, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in two thousand years of church history." Falwell was rumored to be using the situation to gain control of a leading broadcast competitor. Bakker's absence resulted in a fierce fight for control of Th ...
See also:Jim Bakker, Jim Bakker - History in Christian broadcasting, Jim Bakker - Scandals, Jim Bakker - Conviction and prison, Jim Bakker - After prison |  | | Jim Bakker, Jim Bakker - After prison, Jim Bakker - Conviction and prison, Jim Bakker - History in Christian broadcasting, Jim Bakker - Scandals |  | |
|  |  | Jim Bakker: Encyclopedia II - Jim Bakker - Scandals
Jim Bakker - Scandals
On March 19, 1987, following threats of the revelation of the payoff to former secretary Jessica Hahn, whom Bakker's staff members had paid $265,000 to keep secret her sexual services to him, Bakker resigned from the PTL. Jerry Falwell called Bakker a liar, embezzler, sexual deviate, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in two thousand years of church history." Falwell was rumored to be using the situation to gain control of a leading broadcast competitor. Bakker's absence resulted in a fierce fight for control of The PTL Network among several other prominent televangelists, which Falwell won. Upon taking over, Falwell fired Bakker's entire staff, and he provided much of the damning information presented at Bakker's later fraud trial. Under Falwell's leadership, the PTL Network went bankrupt within a short time and was liquidated at a deep discount.
Financial irregularities in the PTL organization led to another scandal. From 1984 to 1987, Bakker and his PTL associates had sold "lifetime memberships" for $1,000 or more that entitled buyers to a three-night stay annually at a luxury hotel at Heritage USA. According to the prosecution at Bakker's later fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships had been sold, but only one 500-room hotel was ever completed. Bakker sold more "exclusive" partnerships than could be accommodated, while raising more than twice the money needed to build the actual hotel. A good deal of the money went into Heritage USA's operating expenses, and Bakker kept $3,700,000 for himself. Bakker, who apparently made all of the financial decisions for the PTL organization, kept two sets of books to conceal the accounting irregularities. Reporters from the newspaper The Charlotte Observer, led by Charles Shepard, discovered and exposed the financial wrongdoings.
Other related archives1939, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1992, 700 Club, American, Assemblies of God, Biblical, Billy Graham, California, Charlotte, Christian, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christianity, Christians, Fort Mill, Franklin Graham, Heritage USA, Internal Revenue Service, Jan Crouch, January 2, Jerry Falwell, Jessica Hahn, Jimmy Swaggart, Lori Graham Bakker, Lyndon LaRouche, March 19, Matthew, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Muskegon, Michigan, New Yorker, North Carolina, PTL, Palm Springs, Pat Robertson, Paul, Peter Popoff, Richard Dortch, Roe Messner, Rolls Royce, Tammy, Tammy Faye Bakker, The Charlotte Observer, Trinity Broadcasting Network, class action suit, federal prison, fraud, indicted, newspaper, parole, political pundit, racketeering, tax evasion, televangelist
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Scandals", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
|
|
More material related to Jim Bakker can be found here:
|
|
« Back
|
Search the Global Oneness web site |
|
|
|
|
 |
Sneak-Peek of Global Oneness Community
Hi friend! The Global Oneness Community, the place for information and sharing about Oneness is not really launched yet (you will see there is still some clean up to do) ...but it is now open for a sneak-peek! And if you wish - please register and become one of the very first members to do so! Jonas
Forum Home,
Articles,
Photo Gallery,
Videos,
News,
Sitemap
...and much more!
|