Jan Crouch, 'Prosperity Gospel' evangelist – obituary

Jan Crouch, 78, is survived by her poodles
and her wig collection.
TBN sued for misuse of funds.Will WELS and the LCMS be next?

Jan Crouch, 'Prosperity Gospel' evangelist – obituary:



"The Crouches claimed that their lavish lifestyle was proof of the rewards bestowed on them by the Almighty for all their good works.  But some sceptics remained unconvinced. In the 1990s they had several run-ins with the Federal Communications Commission over allegations of illegal licences and were nearly taken off the air.

In 2004 it was revealed that, in 1998, Paul Crouch had secretly paid a former TBN employee $425,000 for his silence after the man claimed they had enjoyed a homosexual tryst in 1996 during a weekend spent at a TBN-owned cabin. Crouch, who denied the allegations, explained that he had settled out of court only to avoid a costly and embarrassing trial.



 But perhaps the most damaging attacks on the Crouches came from within their own family."

The late Paul Crouch - this is not a doctored photo,
and yes he was wearing a Roman collar
instead of his standard cowboy costume.

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Jan Crouch Died. Trinity Broadcasting Network - Or Blasphemy Network. Paul and Jan Crouch. Extra Details From 2012

Jan Crouch was famous for the big wigs and nightie costumes on air.

Paul Crouch is the gay caballero of religious TV.
His costumes are comical and cowboy-like.
He died several years ago.

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http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/jan-crouch-tbn-co-founder-dies-at-78/

Jan Crouch, who with her late husband Paul co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network, died on Tuesday following a massive stroke, her family announced on the network’s website.

“Those who battled for the Kingdom of God knew her as a fighter – someone who didn’t give up, someone who fought relentlessly to get the Gospel around the world,” the announcement, signed by Matt, Laurie, Cayland and Cody Crouch, said.

“To a select few she was not a television figure, but was sister, wife, Mom, or Grandma – an integral part of our family,” the announcement continued, “Jan Crouch loved many things, but most of all she loved Jesus, and now has seen Him face to face and has experienced his grace in fullness. She has taken a piece of our hearts with her, but it’s so wonderful to know that Paul and Jan Crouch are together again, in the arms of Jesus.”

Fox News reported she had suffered a stroke just days earlier.

The couple launched the network in 1973 when they took over some air time on a station in California.

TBN officials now say it is carried by more than 5,000 stations.

Paul Crouch died three years ago at 79.

His career took him from helping build an educational AM station while a student at Central Bible Institute in Springfield, Missouri, to radio personality in Rapid City, South Dakota, to work with several California stations.

It was 1974 when TBN purchased its first TV station, KLXA-TV (now KTBN-TV 40) in Southern California. Since then, TBN has grown to reach every major continent via 84 satellite channels and over 18,000 television and cable affiliates around the world.

Jan and Paul also anchored TBN’s flagship program, “Praise the Lord,” a nightly two-hour talk show featuring guests, Scripture and entertainment.

The Crouches, and TBN, have received a number of awards, including the Golden Angel award from the Excellence in Media organization and the Parents Television Council Entertainment Seal of Approval.

The network’s obituary said, “A woman of great faith, courage, and compassion, Jan, as she was known by millions of friends around the world, spent her life spreading the good news of Jesus Christ to every continent, and encouraging everyone she touched with God’s love and grace.”

Her parents were Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Bethany of New Brockton, Alabama. She grew up in Columbus, Georgia.

She attended Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri, where the two met. They married in 1957.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/jan-crouch-tbn-co-founder-dies-at-78/#ztsc4tYG1Bsksik4.99

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Trinity Broadcasting Network -
so much like Thrivent in Appleton.

Suit: Trinity Broadcasting Network board diverted millions from 'charitable assets':

Thrivent is so much like the Crouch Empire.

The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors.

The charges are leveled in a federal lawsuit filed by Crouch granddaughter Brittany Koper (far left) last week against her former lawyers, who also do legal work for TBN.

“Observers have often wondered how the Crouches can afford multiple mansions on both coasts, a $50 million jet and chauffeurs,” said Tymothy MacLeod, Koper’s attorney. “And finally, with the CFO coming forward, we have answers to those questions.”

Koper had served as chief financial officer, director of finance, corporate treasurer and director of human resources for Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, which does business as Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), according to the suit. Koper’s complaint is not directed against her grandparents or TBN — but against the two attorneys who handle some TNB legal work, and who once worked for Koper herself. She accuses them of professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and other transgressions in the suit.

Koper was using these attorneys for her personal affairs,  and she went to them with her suspicions over the legality of the payments to TBN’s directors, only to be told to shut up, return everything she had earned through TBN to the company, and be gone, according to the suit.

Douglass S. Davert of Davert & Loe in Long Beach is one of the attorneys targeted in Koper’s suit. ”Her assertions are outright fiction and wholly without merit,” he said. ”The allegations are defamatory and to the extent they get printed we are going to defend ourselves vigorously.”

Davert said he couldn’t comment fully on pending litigation, but that there’s a great deal more going on here. To wit:

Koper and her husband were actually the ones doing the misdeeds, according to a suit originally filed by Davert & Loe in Orange County Superior Court in October (the original and amended complaints are here).

Though apparently crafted to avoid mentioning TBN, that suit accused Koper and her husband — both of whom worked for TBN and were on its board of directors — of forging documents and misappropriating funds to the tune of some $400,000. The suit was dismissed without settlement in January.

Koper’s lawyer says that suit was a preemptive strike, an attempt to discredit Koper, because Koper was going to blow the whistle.

Redemption Strategies Inc. — a corporation formed by Loe on Oct. 17 — sued the Koperts on Oct. 18, charging embezzlement, fraud, intentional misrepresentation and other misdeeds. At the time, Davert & Loe were still representing Koper,  MacLeod said.

“It’s kind of a sordid affair,” said MacLeod, Koper’s attorney. “Many layers. But at the heart is the wrongful termination. She was terminated for insider whistleblowing.”

We asked TBN to comment directly on these new cases, and will let you know if and when we hear back.

TBN, a nonprofit, reported revenues of $175.6 million, expenses of $193.7 million, and net assets of $827.6 million at the end of 2010, according to its tax returns. Its highest-paid officer was Paul Crouch, with compensation of $400,000. Its officers, directors and key employees included Paul and Jan Crouch, Paul Crouch Jr., Matthew Crouch, Koper and her husband, among others, according to TBN’s most recent tax returns.

MacLeod said that Koper is readying documentation regarding her charges and will submit a package to the Internal Revenue Service for its review.

We’ll keep you posted on how all this shakes out.

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Whole Lot of Scandals Going On: Lutherans Are Not Alone in Skimming Funds

Jan Crouch is on the right.
Big hair and red-eye do not blend well.

Paul Crouch likes his urban cowboy suits.

Among the issues Apprising Ministries covers is the heretical Word Faith (WF) movement as it heads toward acceptance within the mainstream. Elephant Room 2 will likely continue to be the source of division within the contemporary evangelicalism this year because the main claim to fame for this conference was, in my opinion, the pass given to Word Faith mogul T.D. Jakes.

This was a door that should never have been opened because now ostensibly mainstream evangelicals like two-time ER veteran Steven Furtick openly says T.D. Jakes Is My Favorite Preacher In The World and Joel Osteen Is A Great Man Of God. Sadly, people like Joyce Meyer—another Furtick fav—and Joel Osteen are tip-of-the-spear with WF-lite man-centered self-esteem messages ala Robert Schueller  (sic).

In addition, such as these claim this human potential skubalon is given to them by direct revelation from God Himself. The twist added on by these WF spiritual snake oil salesmen is the so-called prosperity gospel. This is not guilt-by-asscoiation, it is guilt-by-endorsement, which moves the Trinity Broadcasting Network—upon which that WF trio endorsed by Steven Furtick regularly appear—closer to the heart of the Christian community.

Now we come to the latest issues in the oft-sordid happenings around TBN. Thanks to growing syncretism and things like ER2 this becomes much closer to your mainstream evangelical church than you may have known. It kind of begins in October of 2011 as Paul Crouch, Jr. Resigns from Family-Founded TBN. He rather suddenly:

announced his resignation from the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the well-known Christian television ministry his parents Paul and Jan Crouch founded 38 years ago. (source)

Then February of this year found TBN Embroiled in ‘Sordid’ Family Lawsuit when:

The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network founders Paul and Jan Crouch has accused some of the network’s directors of illegally distributing “charitable assets” worth more than $50 million for their personal use. Brittany B. Koper, the daughter of Paul Crouch Jr., was TBN’s chief financial officer until last September. She says she was wrongfully fired after she refused to cover up the alleged distribution scheme. (source)

According to a report in The Orange County Register it appears that Koper’s grandfather and uncle Matt Crouch immediately played the classic Word Faith “touch not the anointed of the Lord” card. OC Register staff writer Teri Sforza tells us that right as the news of alleged fraud was breaking:

On Thursday, Feb. 9 — the same day that our story ran online —  Paul Crouch and his son, Matt, were having a live chat on TBN’s “Behind the Scenes.” Paul was reminiscing about how TBN began back in 1973 — God spoke to him as he was driving on MacArthur Boulevard — and the conversation took a turn that Koper’s attorney finds somewhat menacing. “You know what’s funny Dad?” Matt said (at minute 8:38 on the video).

“There have been a few attempts in the TBN history to upset TBN, to stop TBN, to — there have been a few fools in the 38, 39 year history, coming up on 40 years, and you know what, any attempt at stopping TBN — they have no idea who they’re actually pushing into the corner. You and Mom get pushed in a corner, God help you. That’s a lesson I’ve learned from you, seriously.”

Paul Crouch responded: “God help anyone who would try to get in the way of TBN, which was God’s plan. … I have attended the funerals of at least two people who tried…. “Boy, anyone that’s ever tried to get in the way of this network – don’t. Don’t try it. Don’t try it, I’m telling you. You’re playing with fire. God says ‘I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ And TBN, you know what, just plain old TBN as a great network entity is proof of the sovereignty of God and the power of God against hell and high water. This network stands as a monument to the faithfulness of God. He did it. Jan and I were just simple little kids — we didn’t even know what we were doing. It was God’s idea. He did it all.”

Crouch then appealed for donations. “Anyone have a need?” he asked. “Plant a seed. Get to the phone.” The comments were directed at no one in particular, but they resounded with Koper. (source)

I also noticed that particular episode has since vanished from the TBN archives. Today the Christian Post is reporting TBN Family Feud Heats Up as Network Fires Back Against Fraud Accusations:

The Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) said Tuesday that a civil lawsuit filed against it by the founders’ granddaughter and the company’s former finance director is “meritless and contrived,” adding more arguments to what has become an epic scandal involving the largest Christian television network.

Brittany B. Koper, granddaughter of TBN founders Paul and Janice Crouch and their company’s former director of finance, has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the network knew and kept quiet about broad financial inaccuracies benefiting its founders…

[T]he network claims the Kopers were fired for stealing $1.3 million to buy real estate and cars and make family loans, and only came back with their own allegations later, in retaliation. (source)

In closing this, for now, The New York Times brought out another angle of this spiritual “he said-she said” by focusing on the obvious opulence of TBN in Family feud reveals luxuries at largest Christian TV network:

For 39 years, the Trinity Broadcasting Network has urged viewers to give generously and reap the Lord’s bounty in return. The prosperity gospel preached by Paul and Janice Crouch, who built a single station into the world’s largest Christian television network, has worked out well for them.

Mr. and Mrs. Crouch have his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community here, provided by the network using viewer donations and tax-free earnings. But Mrs. Crouch, 74, rarely sleeps in the $5.6 million house with tennis court and pool. She mostly lives in a large company house near Orlando, Fla., where she runs a side business, the Holy Land Experience theme park.

Mr. Crouch, 78, has an adjacent home there too, but rarely visits. Its occupant is often a security guard who doubles as Mrs. Crouch’s chauffeur. The twin sets of luxury homes only hint at the high living enjoyed by the Crouches, inspirational television personalities whose multitudes of stations and satellite signals reach millions of worshipers across the globe.

Almost since they started in the 1970s, the couple have been criticized for secrecy about their use of donations, which totaled $93 million in 2010. (source)

Yet still Paul Crouch was on TBN saying, “Anyone have a need? Plant a seed [send us money]. Get to the phone.”

See also:

RICK WARREN’S SADDLEBACK CHURCH MEN’S GROUP STUDIES JOYCE MEYER

T.D. JAKES PROSPERITY GOSPEL; SOW A SEED, GOD WILL BLESS YOU

STEVEN FURTICK, JAMES MACDONALD, AND JOEL OSTEEN

Lawsuits bring scrutiny to Trinity Broadcasting - CBS News

Paul Crouch

Lawsuits bring scrutiny to Trinity Broadcasting - CBS News:

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have faced plenty of mountains building their religious broadcast empire — among them allegations of a homosexual tryst and a prolonged battle with the Federal Communications Commission — but the most recent attack on the founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network comes from their own flesh and blood.


Their granddaughter, Brittany Koper, recently filed court papers that include allegations of $50 million in financial shenanigans at the world's largest Christian broadcasting network. Her suit was followed by another from a Koper in-law, who detailed opulent spending at the network on items such as private jets, mansions in California, Tennessee and Florida and a $100,000 mobile home for Jan Crouch's dogs.


The lawsuits came after Koper's husband was accused by a debt collection company of embezzling more than $1 million from TBN. The debt collection company that filed the lawsuit later added the Crouches' granddaughter and two of her in-laws as defendants.


The outbreak of legal skirmish offers a rare window into the secretive world of the sprawling religious non-profit and exposes a family feud that could draw more outside scrutiny of TBN. Attorneys from both sides say they have contacted police and the Internal Revenue Service.


The Crouches founded TBN in 1973 and grew it into an international Christian empire that beams prosperity gospel programming — which promises that if the faithful sacrifice for their belief, God will reward them with material wealth — to every continent but Antarctica 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It has 78 satellites and more than 18,000 television and cable affiliates and owns seven other networks, as well as its headquarters in Costa Mesa in Orange County, an estate outside Nashville called Trinity Music City, USA and the Holy Land Experience, a Christian amusement park in Orlando.


On any given day — or night — viewers from the United States to India can watch Christian-inspired news updates, documentaries, movies, talk shows and sermons by preachers such as Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes and Dr. Creflo Dollar without leaving their armchairs.


The lawsuit attention comes at a bad time for TBN, which has seen viewer donations drop steeply. TBN raked in $92 million in donations in 2010 and cleared $175 million in tax-free revenue, but its net income plummeted from nearly $60 million in 2006 to a loss of $18 million in 2010, the most recent year available. Donations fell by nearly $30 million in the same period — a hit the network blames on the bad economy.


At the same time, Koper's father — the eldest Crouch son — resigned abruptly as vice president and chief-of-staff late last year. The unexplained departure of Paul Crouch Jr. roughly coincided with his daughter's legal battle and came just months after he launched iTBN, a project to expand the network's online and mobile reach.


TBN places a premium on privacy and it's almost impossible to divine what is going on behind the scenes. Yet televangelist empires built largely on charisma often encounter choppy waters as their founding personalities age.


"It's true that in these large ministries, they do become family enterprises ... and in many ways that can be a most precarious problem for them," said David E. Harrell, a professor emeritus of American religion at Auburn University, who has written about well-known televangelists. "Business squabbles, if they're complicated with family squabbles, can get nasty indeed."


TBN referred requests for comment to its attorney, Colby M. May. Crouch Jr. did not return a call.


May dismissed the idea of family turmoil and said the reason behind the legal fight was simple: Koper and her husband stole from the network.


"They're attempting to create a diversion and to create as much public spectacle as they can in the vain hope that this will all get resolved and that's simply not going to happen," he said.


TBN's reach and programming are expansive, but what is more impressive is the amount of money it receives from viewers — even in a downturn.


During TBN's Praise-A-Thon earlier this month, a preacher exhorted viewers to bellow "Fear not!" three times, count down from 10 and then rush to the phone with donations. In exchange, he said, they would receive a miracle from God "about this time tomorrow." Within seconds, all 200 phone lines were busy.


Ministry watchdogs have long questioned how TBN — which declared more than $800 million in net assets in 2010 — spends that wealth.


TBN files reports with the IRS, but the Crouches run nearly two dozen other organizations that are harder to track and they operate extensively overseas, said Rusty Leonard, who founded Wall Watchers, an organization that monitors the financial transparency of church ministries to which its members donate.


Wall Watchers gives TBN an 'F' for financial transparency and keeps them on its list of the 30 worst ministries.


"They could run a loss like the one they ran last year for an awfully long time before they would run out of money," Leonard said. "They're basically taking money from old people and putting it in their pocket and living the high life."


Allegations of lavish spending are central in the battle between the Crouches' granddaughter and a debt collection company called Redemption Strategies Inc., which was incorporated by a TBN attorney.


According to Koper's attorney, the 26-year-old took over as chief financial officer at TBN after obtaining a master's in business administration degree and quickly realized that its directors — her family members — were acting illegally.


Koper sent a memo to the board detailing her allegations, but was fired within days, said the attorney, Tymothy MacLeod.


Koper's husband was sued by Redemption Strategies, which alleged he had embezzled hundreds of thousands while he worked at the family business. The debt collection company was registered with the state by a TBN attorney one day before it filed suit against Michael Koper.


The case was dismissed, but not before Brittany Koper and two in-laws were added as defendants.


Brittany Koper countersued, alleging that TBN's attorneys formed Redemption Strategies to retaliate against her for whistleblowing.


Her suit doesn't list TBN as a defendant, but it alleges that Koper was fired and made to turn over her house, condominium, life insurance policy, car, furniture and jewelry as "an act of Christian contrition" when she complained about the financial misdeeds at TBN.


A similar suit filed by Michael Koper's uncle, Joseph McVeigh, alleges that TBN attorneys also targeted him as part of a campaign of retaliation.


McVeigh's suit names TBN as one of seven defendants and alleges that TBN bought a $50 million luxury jet through a sham loan; owns an $8 million Hawker jet for Jan Crouch's personal use; bought a $100,000 RV for Jan Crouch's dogs and has 13 mansions and homes around the U.S. for the Crouch family's use.


TBN attorney May called the McVeigh's lawsuit a "tabloid filing" and said the allegations in both cases were "utterly and completely contrived." TBN suspects McVeigh, who claims he received a $65,000 loan from the family empire, was working with the Kopers to steal money from the ministry, May said.


The network's spending is in line with its mission to spread the gospel throughout the world, May said, and the Crouches travel by private jet because they have had "scores of death threats, more than the president of the United States."


The ministry keeps large amounts of cash in reserve because incurring debt goes against the Biblical exhortation to "owe no man any thing," he said.


"The answer is, there is no fire there," May said. "They pay as they go and every now and then one of the things that they pay as they go on is the acquisition of a broadcast facility and that's a multi-million dollar transaction."


TBN is no stranger to outside scrutiny.


In 1998, the elder Crouch secretly paid an accuser $425,000 to keep quiet about allegations of a homosexual encounter. Crouch Sr. has consistently denied the allegations, which were first reported by the Los Angeles Times, and has said he settled only to avoid a costly and embarrassing trial.


In 2000, after a five-year battle, a federal appeals court overturned a ruling by the FCC that found Crouch had created a "sham" minority company to get around limits on the number of TV stations he could own.

Trinity Broadcasting Network - Expose

Jan Crouch

One of my Facebook friends has written about Paul and Jan Crouch, so I asked him for information about the book.

http://www.newdiscernment.org/

Rev. Bob Liichow Hi brother Gregory. If you'd like to tell folks about my book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About TBN* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) --- they can order a copy for a mere $25.00 in full color, 8.5 X 11 book, professionally done. You can direct them to send me an email at Bliichow@juno.com or simply send a donation to us via PayPal through our website ---www.newdiscernment.org. Thanks and God bless!

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West Hollywood coyboy Paul Crouch.

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There are many independent ministries with a strong Internet presence that have opposed the Church Growth Movement. Many of them are more knowledgeable and vocal in their opposition than most of today's alleged conservative Lutherans. A few years back, when I was looking for help in finding out about Rick Warren, I ended up printing out a stack of articles about two feet high. It gave me good insight into the flighty nature of the book of the month trend that is prevalent in today's navel gazing American evangelicalism. Conditions have only deteriorated since that time. So much of the laity has been hoodwinked. A member who desires study from the Book of Concord certainly must seem to be an anomaly.


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GJ - The ELCA pastors, led by Tietjen, rebelled against a CG parish being set up in their territory. The insurance project moved to Yorba Linda, flopped, and closed. That was the only Lutheran opposition I saw, except for Richard Neuhaus' speech against it at Ad Fontes. Neuhaus was one of many people I knew whose disgust with Church Growthism translated into Romanism.

I have always been startled by the Evangelicals' slashing, pointed attacks against the Fuller mentality. The so-called conservative Lutherans simply compromise, defend, and promote it.

Buchholz was supposed to be a critic of Church Growth, but he has been a defender of it, a bulwark for Mark Jeske too.

The truly conservative Protestants, who actually believe in the authority of the Word of God, have no use for Fuller Seminary antics, including those spikey-haired goofballs who called themselves Emergent.

That is one thing lacking in the Synodical Conference (tm). Lutherans should be teaching the Means of Grace faithfully and upholding worship and sermon standards. Their lack of faith in the efficacy of the Word shows the world that they are no more than Fuller wannabees, without the spine to admit the truth about their cowardly retreat.

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/televangelists-accused-of-defrauding-50-million-from-trinity-broadcasting-network/
Their granddaughter, Brittany Koper, recently filed court papers that include allegations of $50 million in financial shenanigans at the world’s largest Christian broadcasting network. Her suit was followed by another from a Koper in-law, who detailed opulent spending at the network on items such as private jets, mansions in California, Tennessee and Florida and a $100,000 mobile home for Jan Crouch’s dogs.

(W)ELS never found the $8,000,000. Who is in a position to explain what happened to eight million dollars of the laity's offerings? I think that qualifies Synod money to be henceforth referred to as Burnt Offerings.

Paul and Jan Crouch, Trinity Blasphemy Network. Sued for Misuse of Funds

Jan Crouch is famous for the big wigs and nightie costumes on air.

Paul Crouch is the gay caballero of religious TV.
His costumes are comical and cowboy-like.

Suit: Trinity Broadcasting Network board diverted millions from 'charitable assets':

The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors.

The charges are leveled in a federal lawsuit filed by Crouch granddaughter Brittany Koper (far left) last week against her former lawyers, who also do legal work for TBN.

“Observers have often wondered how the Crouches can afford multiple mansions on both coasts, a $50 million jet and chauffeurs,” said Tymothy MacLeod, Koper’s attorney. “And finally, with the CFO coming forward, we have answers to those questions.”

Koper had served as chief financial officer, director of finance, corporate treasurer and director of human resources for Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, which does business as Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), according to the suit. Koper’s complaint is not directed against her grandparents or TBN — but against the two attorneys who handle some TNB legal work, and who once worked for Koper herself. She accuses them of professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and other transgressions in the suit.

Koper was using these attorneys for her personal affairs,  and she went to them with her suspicions over the legality of the payments to TBN’s directors, only to be told to shut up, return everything she had earned through TBN to the company, and be gone, according to the suit.

Douglass S. Davert of Davert & Loe in Long Beach is one of the attorneys targeted in Koper’s suit. ”Her assertions are outright fiction and wholly without merit,” he said. ”The allegations are defamatory and to the extent they get printed we are going to defend ourselves vigorously.”

Davert said he couldn’t comment fully on pending litigation, but that there’s a great deal more going on here. To wit:

Koper and her husband were actually the ones doing the misdeeds, according to a suit originally filed by Davert & Loe in Orange County Superior Court in October (the original and amended complaints are here).

Though apparently crafted to avoid mentioning TBN, that suit accused Koper and her husband — both of whom worked for TBN and were on its board of directors — of forging documents and misappropriating funds to the tune of some $400,000. The suit was dismissed without settlement in January.

Koper’s lawyer says that suit was a preemptive strike, an attempt to discredit Koper, because Koper was going to blow the whistle.

Redemption Strategies Inc. — a corporation formed by Loe on Oct. 17 — sued the Koperts on Oct. 18, charging embezzlement, fraud, intentional misrepresentation and other misdeeds. At the time, Davert & Loe were still representing Koper,  MacLeod said.

“It’s kind of a sordid affair,” said MacLeod, Koper’s attorney. “Many layers. But at the heart is the wrongful termination. She was terminated for insider whistleblowing.”

We asked TBN to comment directly on these new cases, and will let you know if and when we hear back.

TBN, a nonprofit, reported revenues of $175.6 million, expenses of $193.7 million, and net assets of $827.6 million at the end of 2010, according to its tax returns. Its highest-paid officer was Paul Crouch, with compensation of $400,000. Its officers, directors and key employees included Paul and Jan Crouch, Paul Crouch Jr., Matthew Crouch, Koper and her husband, among others, according to TBN’s most recent tax returns.

MacLeod said that Koper is readying documentation regarding her charges and will submit a package to the Internal Revenue Service for its review.

We’ll keep you posted on how all this shakes out.

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