{"id":31548,"date":"2012-03-24T20:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/suit_alleges_financial_fraud_at_tbn_an_orange_county_christian_network\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:04:03","slug":"suit_alleges_financial_fraud_at_tbn_an_orange_county_christian_network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31548","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Suit alleges financial fraud at TBN, an Orange County Christian network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinity Broadcasting Network, which bills itself as the world&#8217;s largest Christian network, is embroiled in a legal battle involving allegations of massive financial fraud and lavish spending, including the purchase of a $100,000 motor home for family dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Koper, a former high-ranking TBN official and the granddaughter of its co-founder, Paul Crouch Sr., was fired by the network in September after discovering &#8220;illegal financial schemes&#8221; amounting to tens of millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She blew the whistle and got terminated,&#8221; said attorney Tymothy MacLeod, who filed the suit on behalf of Joseph McVeigh, the uncle of Koper&#8217;s husband, Michael Koper, who was himself a high-ranking TBN officer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0323-televangelist-feud-20120323,0,7963175.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinity Broadcasting Network, which bills itself as the world&#8217;s largest Christian network, is embroiled in a legal battle involving allegations of massive financial fraud and lavish spending, including the purchase of a $100,000 motor home for family dogs. Brittany<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31548\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,582,589,149,168,419,114,89,93,154,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-movies-television","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}