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"Johnny Asia" |
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12 Sep 2004 10:52:30 AM |
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TV Evangelist & Ashcroft Buddy in Gay Sex Scandal |
Republican "family values" are no bargain!
http://www.tbn.org/about/newsletter/0201/020109.htm
Paul Crouch Meets Attorney General John Ashcroft
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" God is opening many
wonderful new doors in America, too! I had the joy of greeting
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, at the inauguration of our President
last January. We actually attended the same church as boys, in
Springfield, Missouri!
Photo of TV Evangelist Paul Crouch with Ashcroft at the White House:
http://www.tbn.org/about/newsletter/0201/images/ashcroft.jpg
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=3&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_us/televangelist_allegations
Televangelist Said Tried to Hush Charges
LOS ANGELES - The founder of the world's largest Christian
broadcasting network has sought repeatedly to prevent a former male
employee from going public with allegations of a sexual encounter
between them eight years ago, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Paul Crouch, 70, president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network,
reached a $425,000 settlement in 1998 with the former worker who
threatened to sue over claims he had been unjustly fired from the
network, the Los Angeles Times said.
Crouch later won a closed-door ruling against the employee, Enoch
Lonnie Ford, 41, when he tried to violate a provision of the
settlement that barred him from discussing the alleged encounter, the
newspaper said.
Neither Crouch nor a Trinity representative could be reached for
comment Sunday by The Associated Press. Calls and an e-mail to a
Trinity attorney identified by the Times as Dennis G. Brewer Sr. were
not immediately returned.
The legal wrangling was confirmed by the Times through unsealed court
records, interviews, correspondences among Trinity's lawyers and a
copy of an arbitrator's confidential ruling.
The claims could damage the Orange County-based Christian broadcasting
empire Crouch and his wife began in 1973. The network, which depends
heavily on donations, reaches millions of people around the world.
Ford said he was unable to discuss the allegations. But according to
one of Ford's friends, Ford said his sexual encounter with Crouch
occurred in the fall of 1996 at a network-owned cabin near Lake
Arrowhead.
"Lonnie had a lot of bad traits; one thing he isn't, and that's a
liar," said Sandi Mahlow, 50.
The Times said that after the initial settlement, Ford threatened to
go public with a manuscript detailing his allegations and his lawyer
sought to exchange the manuscript for $10 million. Crouch took
additional legal action through private arbitration.
The result was a closed-door ruling last June that Ford could not
publish the expose without violating the 1998 settlement, an act that
could make him liable for any monetary damages.
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"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism
by those who have not got it." - G. B. Shaw
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