{"id":198158,"date":"2007-12-06T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/top-televangelists-refusing-to-respond-to-senate-inquiries\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:04:00","slug":"top-televangelists-refusing-to-respond-to-senate-inquiries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/top-televangelists-refusing-to-respond-to-senate-inquiries\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Televangelists Refusing to Respond to Senate Inquiries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I mentioned that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/senate-investigating-top-televangelists.html\">Senator Grassley (R-IA) was requisting spending data from major televangelists<\/a>, in order to look for evidence of things  like self dealing, living high on the hog, etc.<\/p>\n<p>As I said then, requiring churches to file form 990, like other tax exempts, would make all of this data publicly available, and the cost is minimal.<\/p>\n<p>It appears now that most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/12\/2nd_preacher_spurns_senate.php\">televangelists are ignoring the Senate&#8217;s Finance Committee&#8217;s request<\/a>.  Only the Joyce Meyer Ministries has turned over data to this point.<\/p>\n<p>I have to figure that some of them are overcompensating their preachers.<\/p>\n<p>I would remind you that the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityfi.org\/\">Trinity Foundation<\/a> has been doing good work for years documenting fraud, waste, and lavish spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I mentioned that Senator Grassley (R-IA) was requisting spending data from major televangelists, in order to look for evidence of things like self dealing, living high on the hog, etc. As I said then, requiring churches to file form 990, like other tax exempts, would make all of this data publicly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}