Lawsuit: Schullers flourished as church (Chrystal Cathedral) suffered

[Liberal_in_LA]

Here is a list of benefits family members received, according to the complaint:

* Robert H. Schuller was given a discretionary fund of $300,000 after he handed over the ministry to his son Robert A. Schuller in 2006. He continued to receive compensation and housing allowances and received as much as $257,000 in 2009. He was also granted access to a 12th floor office suite. Schuller's agreement also guarantees both him and his wife, Arvella, health insurance, staff and travel staff for the rest of their lives. Schuller's claim: $55,226.27. Robert H. Schuller International, Schuller's company, also demands contractual payments totaling $223,078.09.

* Robert A. Schuller who resigned as senior pastor in 2008 was given a $235,000 reserve fund to help found a new church. Both he and his wife, Donna, were to be paid salaries and benefits for a year after they left. Under the agreement, Crystal Cathedral Ministries also agreed to give Robert A. Schuller's new church a Mercedes Benz vehicle and $1 million in seed money for the new church. If a new church was not established, the younger Schuller and his wife would receive full salary and benefits for one additional year. The couple also occupied a condominium in Laguna Beach that was owned by the church. Robert A. Schuller's claim: $1.4 million.

* Paul and Jeanne Dunn: Both Paul and his wife Jeanne Dunn were compensated until the filing of bankruptcy for producing the Glories although the pageants were not produced in 2009 and 2010. Dunn's agreement in 1992 gave him retirement benefits, life insurance, medical and disability insurance, paid staff, business, housing and car allowances. He was also allowed eight round trips per year from Hawaii, where he lives, to California. Paul Dunn's claim: $52,037.57; Jeanne Dunn's claim: $25,908.

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/schuller-320176-church-milner.html

The complaint argues that while most family members did not add any benefit to the ministry, the vendors who provided services to the church went unpaid.

[spanone]

1. the flim-flam man.....greatest scam in the world...and NO taxes!!!!

[NBachers]

2. Once I was hitch-hiking. I got picked up by this gaunt old man in a 1948 jalopy filled with bibles

He was out distributing bibles for free from his dilapidated old clunker. He didn't need a new Mercedes. He didn't need a Crystal Cathedral.

It was like a guy and a car out of a Stephen King novel, but he was more authentic than any of these god-plated grifters.

More power to him; less power to them.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. That's the danger of "unorganized religion"

No oversight.

[MADem]

4. That guy was on TV in fancy robes with a massive choir.

He was always smiling with his china-white teeth.

No wonder! I'd smile too if I had that kind of a payday!