A South Carolina church secretary has been charged with misusing more than $10,000 of the church’s money. Her arrest follows just months after the church, a 156-year-old community landmark, was destroyed by fire. Jennifer Dixon-Hooks managed finances at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Darlington, South Carolina, according to WBTW-TV Ch 13 in Myrtle Beach. On Tuesday, Hooks was arrested and charged with breach of trust greater than $10,000, the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office said in a...| The Roys Report
Eight leaders of a Georgia-based church have been indicted for swindling more than $30 million from multiple banks and an untold number of U.S. veterans. The widespread fraud scheme was operated for decades by leaders of the House of Prayer Christian Churches of America (HOPCC), the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia in a press release. The leaders allegedly targeted members of the U.S. military for indoctrination and then “exercised extreme control” to gain mon...| The Roys Report
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