Televangalist Benny Hinn's "Church" Being Raided Right Now By IRS in Dallas

[Stallion]

local TV picking it up right now

[malaise]

1. That thief isn't in prison yet?

Great news

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/northeast-tarrant/article146961764.html

When will the IRS go after the Con?

[Skittles]

2. the same people so easily fooled by people like him

are so easily fooled by people like Trump

[csziggy]

3. IRS investigators search televangelist Benny Hinn's offices in Grapevine

Julieta Chiquillo, The Dallas Morning News

Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service served a search warrant Wednesday at the Grapevine offices of televangelist Benny Hinn.

A large number of agents walked in and out of the offices with boxes, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported, but officials wouldn't confirm to the TV station what they're investigating or whether they're looking into Hinn.

A woman who answered the phone for the Benny Hinn Ministries headquarters said she had no information.

Hinn was the subject of a 2007 U.S. Senate inquiry that looked into the spending of six televangelists. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned the personal use of church-owned airplanes, luxury homes and credit cards by pastors and their families, but there was no definitive finding of wrongdoing when the investigation ended in 2011.

More: https://www.dallasnews.com/life/faith/2017/04/26/irs-investigators-search-televangelist-benny-hinns-offices-grapevine

[RedWedge]

4. Aw, he's one of my favorite charlatans!

[world wide wally]

5. Weirdest thing I've seen since Trumps interview

[Initech]

6. Got to love it when the real criminals get caught!

[jls4561]

7. I think the new "tax reform" must include repeal of the church exemptions

Especially if the gops want to make endorsing candidates from the pulpit legal.

Give traditional churches some leeway to maintain their buildings and legitimate charity work. Missionary work - sorry, finance that it on your own. Perks for mega preachers taxed at higher than the maximum rate.

Of course, this would result in a long and complicated tax form because they would have to prove that they did charity work without indoctrination. Oh well.

Think of the money that would flow into the government in order to actually help people. In the next administration.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Sweet! nt

[Donkees]

9. LOL :)

[SonofDonald]

15. Oh damn that's good

That got a belly laugh.!

[spiderpig]

10. Hi Feds! Need directions to Clearwater?

You might want to take a teensy-weensy look at the "Church" of $cientology while you're at it.

[NCTraveler]

19. +1

Small victory here.

Clearwater City Council votes 5-0 to buy downtown parcel coveted by the Church of Scientology

http://web.tampabay.com/news/scientology/live-clearwater-city-council-set-to-vote-on-land-coveted-by-the-church-of/2321083

[spiderpig]

20. Clearwater 1 - Co$ 0.

I've read the "Church" is making an all-out effort to renovate Clearwater so that it will be fit for Crown Prince Cruise, who is in the process of moving there.

Clearwater residents - I haven't been there since my college days a million years ago, but I've heard the omnipresence of Co$ and their peeps are a creepy presence in what used to be a lovely town. True?

[NCTraveler]

24. I still consider Clearwater to be a great place.

They have fully taken over downtown and have bought large living complexes off of Keene between Gulf to Bay and Sunset Point. Neither area is much of an attraction. Downtown Clearwater hasn't been for decades outside of the new marina and Coachman Park.

[Permanut]

11. See - there is a God..

Or karma. Or yin and yang. Anyway, great news!

[Mariana]

23. I'll believe it when his ass is in prison. nt.

[Permanut]

32. Amen. n/t

[colsohlibgal]

12. Nothing But Con Men, All Of Them

God wants you to send me hard cash and will reward you for helping me buy another mansion or whatever.

People who send them money are nothing but suckers being used.

[muntrv]

13. But...but... Benny healed Evander Holyfield's heart!That makes Hinn

Gawd!

[Coventina]

14. Long overdue, but glad it's finally happening. N/T

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Well, there is something good in the news.

[Omaha Steve]

17. Where have they been for the last 30 years?

I would love to be the judge, jury, and executioner!

[meow2u3]

18. 1 down, many more to go?

I think the IRS should go after EVERY SINGLE ONE of those religious frauds prosperity gospel preachers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law for tax evasion. They've been abusing the tax code to pose as ordained ministers in order to finance a luxurious lifestyle which makes Trump's scams look like child's play by comparison.

[oasis]

21. Lordy, lordy please don't allow the "Capture" to precede the "Rapture".

[area51]

22. Yet another

Benny Hinn/Benny Hill montage.

[Kentonio]

25. I don't understand

Why is he hitting those people and throwing them on the floor? Call me a dumb athiest if you will, but I don't get it.

[shenmue]

26. The Holy Spirit!

[lindysalsagal]

27. Even jesus didn't do that s&%!

People. Are. Irrational.

[titaniumsalute]

28. I used to get really high and watch Benny Hinn

Now that was funny shit. Oh and Earnest Angely.

[Ken Burch]

29. Will they chop down his mega-combover in prison?

[sunonmars]

30. I first misread that as Benny Hill..........

[HAB911]

31. Hoo Ba Ba Kanda

[Rustyeye77]

34. Whats the name of this clown?

ive never seen this idiot before.

[Stallion]

35. You Must Be a Youngster-Tongue Speaker Robert Tilton

Robert Tilton was, at one time, one of the most famous names in televangelism. His show, Success-N-Life, was beamed into homes throughout the nation and earned the pastor’s church millions per year during the later 1980s and early 1990s.
One of Tilton’s main tactics to get his enormous following to donate money was to ask them to send prayer requests to his ministry. He claimed he would then use his special connection to God to personally pray over the requests and increase the chance of the prayer being answered, assuming a little bit of money was sent in alongside it.
The system operated for several years until ABC’s Prime Time Live caught wind of the scam. Following investigations, they released a special named “The Apple of God’s Eye.” Among other things, it showed how the prayer requests were simply being thrown out in the trash—minus the money, of course.


http://listverse.com/2015/01/16/10-evangelist-preachers-who-fell-from-grace/

[HAB911]

36. enjoy!

[spanone]

33. if there is a heaven & hell, i believe there will be a special room in hell for televangelists

fucking over the poor and old in the name of god