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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/26/2008 : 04:44:41
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Much to my astonishment, Benny Hinn is cooperating, or at least seems to be, with the Grassly inquirey. A senator's investigation into spending and oversight at six "prosperity gospel" ministries has hit a roadblock with a minister intensifying his efforts to fight the inquiry, but made progress on Monday when another turned over documents.
Flamboyant Texas-based faith healer Benny Hinn had turned over material to the Senate Finance Committee in response to a letter of inquiry from Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in early November, an aide to the senator said.
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Others are not so forthcoming: Two Atlanta-area ministers, Creflo Dollar and Bishop Eddie Long, have refused to cooperate, while Paula and Randy White of Tampa also have failed to provide any information, Grassley's office said.
Copeland, initially reserved, has become increasingly combative toward Grassley.
In a letter this month to supporters, Copeland wrote that the ministry's response to Grassley "contained detailed information about non-church related questions" but did not provide information it deems private.
Copeland said the ministry fully complies with all laws, and pledged that he would go to jail before turning over names of donors.
"The enemy is not going to steal what the Lord has won through this ministry, and he is not going to use this attack to bring harm to the rest of the churches and ministries in America!" Copeland wrote.
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Now that begs the question, doesn't it?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/26/2008 : 08:06:50 [Permalink]
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Getting interesting, indeed. I suspect that Hinn has either turned over a huge amount of raw data, perhaps hoping the sheer volume will hide the incriminating stuff, or else has given the committee fake information. Either way will be likely bad for him, but cooking the books for Congress would get him a lot more years in the hoosegow.
The others clearly know they have no way of surviving an investigation, so are either just stonewalling, or, as in the case of Copeland, also going on the offensive against the committee. A desperate move, but these are desperate times for these frauds.
(Anyone else notice that Copeland essentially implied that Senator Grassley is the Devil himself?)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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An update:
