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Shouldn’t the congregation know how much compensation Ben Young receives?  Did he get a large raise during the past couple of years?

The jury trial in the court case revealed in our April 2025 article, Power, Deceit, and Betrayal at Second Baptist Houston, was recently moved back again from April 29^th, 2026, to July 27^th, 2026—a second continuance in the case between the Jeremiah Counsel Corporation (JCC) and Second Baptist Houston’s “Young Group”.   Judge Grant Dorfman has ordered mediation between the parties with mediator and former judge Harvey Brown.

One side wants Transparency and Accountability, the OTHER side wants to HIDE

After church members voted to approve secretive bylaws which they could not view before the vote, church leadership eliminated church-wide business meetings and stopped sharing annual budgets with donors.

The two sides are so far apart it is hard to imagine any agreement prior to a jury trial.  The issues: no transparency for how the church board spends donor funds; no accountability by a non-independent, self-perpetuating, board of directors while over a billion dollars’ worth of assets is at stake; a history of lavish spending by relatives; etc.

Questions:  Has Ben Young received a huge salary increase and/or housing allowance in the past two years as the new Senior Pastor?  Is the new board considering selling one of its church campuses? How much is the church paying in legal fees to one of its board members who is both a lawyer and an ‘ordained’ minister?

Nationwide Publicity

Documentarist Nathan Apffel, creator of the docuseries The Religion Business has published videos on his website about the issue and discussed it with Tucker Carlson on his YouTube channel. Youtuber Todd Chrisley interviewed Nathan on his Chrisley Confessions channel and they discussed the ongoing Second Baptist case as well.

Continue reading “Jeremiah Counsel Corp V. Second Baptist Houston New Trial Date and Mediation—SO FAR APART, TOO FAR APART??”

This week the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), claiming the non-profit, famous for fighting racism, was actually giving money to the heads of white supremacy organizations, who served as Field Sources for the SPLC.

How did the SPLC cover up its alleged crimes? We will show you while examining the Form 990s filed with the IRS.

According to the indictment (screenshot below), SPLC created bank accounts using the names of fictitious companies to transfer funds to Field Sources.

 

The Cover Up: Unidentified Related Organizations

The companies in this scheme were NOT reported on the SPLC 990s.

Non-profit organizations are required to identify related organizations in Schedule R of a 990.

SPLC identifies only two related organizations in its latest 990: SPLC Atlanta Office and SPLC Action Fund.

 

Religious Non-Profits Operating Unidentified Related Organizations

Trinity Foundation has investigated religious organizations that operate like the SPLC by failing to identify related organizations on 990s.

While churches, synagogues, and mosques are not required to file 990s with the IRS, other religious non-profits are required to file them.

Attorney Jay Sekulow serves as president of Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (CASE) and the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). These two entities work together but are NOT identified as related organizations on their respective 990s.

Why would Jay Sekulow file incomplete 990s with the IRS? The most likely reason is to avoid disclosing income from the related organization.

Column E in the following screenshot shows that Jay Sekulow received no compensation from related organizations. Does Jay Sekulow volunteer his time or is he lying to donors?

Jay Sekulow is most likely paid through Constitutional Litigation & Advocacy Group (CLAG), his own law firm, doing work on behalf ACLJ, which received $9,761,861 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. Also, Sekulow’s law firm is not identified as a related organization on Schedule R.

Gary Sekulow, Jay’s brother, is a certified public accountant serving as VP of Finance for the ACLJ and Chief Finance Officer of CASE. His combined compensation from both organizations is more than $1 million, but donors would not know it was over a million dollars if they didn’t review both of the organizations’ form 990s.

(Screenshot: CASE 2024 Form 990)

(Screenshot: ACLJ 2024-2025 Form 990)

 

Potential Solution

The IRS could impose penalties on non-profits that file incomplete 990s or require the non-profits to file amended 990s to maintain their tax-exemption.

 

 

(Screenshot: Faith healer David E. Taylor patterned his ministry after Benny Hinn’s ministry.)

The United States found thousands of sexually explicit pictures and videos in televangelist David E. Taylor’s iCloud account and is searching for minors, according to a response brief filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Resnick Cohen on March 16, 2026.

Previously the government obtained a protective order to prevent the disclosure of the names of victims and witnesses such as women appearing in some of the videos. However, Taylor’s legal team has filed to have the protective order modified to allow them to share the names of witnesses.

The brief states the government’s opposition to allowing “anyone on the defense team to disclose the names of victims and witnesses.”

Cohen alleges that members of Taylor’s Kingdom of God Global Church (KOGGC) “have learned the identities of the victims and exchanged messages about victims.”

The brief included the following text message exchange with church prophetess Kathleen Klein as evidence:

KOGGC Member: “would suck if she [a particular victim] randomly died, huh?”

Kathleen Klein: “I had that thought earlier today”

KOGGC Member: Yeah it’d be hilarious”

Continue reading “FBI Searching Televangelist David E. Taylor’s iCloud Account for Minors”

 

(Screenshot: Benny Hinn appearing in a Trinity Broadcasting Network telethon.)

It rarely gets media attention, but for decades so-called prophets have targeted wealthy individuals with personalized prophecies for the purpose of obtaining lucrative donations.

We’ve collected several examples below.

This corrupt practice was discussed in Bible teacher Mike Winger’s recent exposé of Shawn Bolz.

Mike Winger: “I’m going to call them Bob and Sally…Bob and Sally were a couple that was very well off, and they had the beginnings of this business that was skyrocketing, like you know, crazy, crazy money. That was the direction that it was heading. That is very attractive to the prophet crowd… those guys that they love, the rich big money bags guys that they can prophesy to, sincere Christians who love Jesus and just happen to have a load of cash. All of a sudden, you get special words of knowledge for those people.”

Winger reports that Mike Bickle, Shawn Bolz and Stacy Campbell, all leaders in America’s prophetic movement, attempted to recruit Bob and Sally.

You can view the exposé here.

False Prophet William Branham’s Wealth and Jet

When evangelist William Branham died in 1965, he left behind properties, stock and a large amount of cash.

In 1989, Branham’s daughter Sarah Branham De Corado revealed in a letter, “Just recently a noted lawyer in New York looked into the matter and showed me different bank statements which are still in my possession. One shows the amount in cash of 3,113,676 plus stocks 130,645 plus other things. This money was left untouched since the departure of my father. According to the notary document it is fixed for 25 years. I am asking myself what will be done with the large sum of money accumulated by now after the 26th of October, 1990.”

Continue reading “False Prophecy as a Path to Riches, Part 2: Targeting Wealthy Donors”