As promised, if I got any updates I would share. I had two people reach out to me today to inform me about this and now I am sharing.
This is NOT MY reporting. I did request some information but this blog features a link to the court documents, a link to one of the men who broke the story courtesy of his Substack Page: Court Watch and some excerpts from a story that ran today in the Augusta Chronicle.
Still no word about arrests. Will keep on it!
Seamus Hughes on Substack
His work is featured on Court Watch Read it
here:
https://seamushughes.substack.com/p/exclusive-church-preyed-on-veterans?sd=pf
This was reported in the Augusta Chronicle
1/4/23
Written by Alexandra Koch
Here are some excerpts from her story:
Department of Justice recently filed a
forfeiture motion for almost $150,000. The motion claims the church and it's bible
seminary defrauded hundreds of military members in a more than $22 million
scheme.
The motion filed Friday…alleges the church committed theft and
unlawful conversion of government property, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit
wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Authorities say the church used 20 financial institutions and 80 bank accounts
to transfer funds.
In this case, the nearly $150,000 in assets were seized on July
22 from six accounts held by South Georgia Bank and First Citizens Bank as a
result of federal seizure warrants authorized on July 21 in the Southern
District of Georgia.
Here is a link to the forfeiture document on
Google Docs:
