David E. Taylor mugshot

Dear United States Attorney of Record Sarah Resnick Cohen and U.S. Attorneys Jerome F. Gorgon Jr., John K. Neal, Christina Randall-James, and Ariana Dydell,

Trinity Foundation has investigated religious fraud for over 35 years, and we have observed many religious leaders using deception to obtain donations from their followers.

In addition to current charges, Trinity Foundation investigators “Pete” John P. Evans and Barry A. Bowen recommend suspect David E. Taylor be charged with Criminal Fraud.

We believe the facts and circumstances relating to Mr. Taylor and his ministries provide an ideal opportunity to firmly establish case-law that would benefit United States citizens who donate regularly to questionable religious non-profit organizations.

In August 2019, we submitted a report to the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS in Dallas Texas recommending Mr. David E. Taylor be charged with criminal fraud and that the tax-exemption status of his three non-profit organizations be revoked.

The United Stated District Court Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division has jurisdiction. Taylor’s fraudulent money-raising tactics cross state lines and go all over the US via his internet website, mass emails, the US postal service, and television.  Moreover, he has operations in four states—Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Texas.

Fraudulent Claims Made by Mr. Taylor

Evidence we provided in reports to the Exempt Organization Division of the IRS in April 2018 and the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS in August 2019 along with current evidence exposes some of the many claims made by Mr. Taylor, the following which we believe are fraudulent:

• Taylor claimed to heal people with prayer cloths on a July 14, 2019, broadcast (available on request): “For about 20 years I have been praying over handkerchiefs and I have seen whole villages in other countries healed, saved and set free. There was a village dying of sickness.   I sent one handkerchief and they passed the handkerchief around the village and everyone was healed and gave their life to Jesus.”  Where is this village? Taylor offers no evidence for this claim.
• From a September 8, 2023, Facebook post, “I’ve established thousands of churches around the world … feeding millions with the convoy of miracles campaign … building water wells, orphanages, and helping establish thousands of churches around the world and so much more.” Joshua Media Ministries International (JMMI) and Kingdom of God Global Church lacked the manpower to start thousands of churches and their website has no list of foreign affiliated churches.
• More recently to promote his 2025 Online Global Miracle Healing Crusade, Taylor posted an article on Facebook with the title “She Walked Again After 2 Decades, Was Raised from the Dead, and God Gave Her 27 Supernatural Dental Crowns!”[1] For this kind of a claim, at least some evidence of who the person was that received these supernatural miracles, did a doctor and/or a dentist confirm these?
• A month earlier, Taylor posted to Facebook, “JESUS APPEARS FACE TO FACE TO A NAVY SEAL WAR VETERAN FOR 14 MINUTES AFTER A BOMB EXPLOSION KILLED HIM IN 2023!”[2] Where is the evidence for such a claim?
• “Thousands are being healed of cancer through the life and ministry of David E. Taylor” (Taylor’s Twitter account, July 18, 2019) If thousands were healed people would have gone back to friends and families and told them about the miracles, this would have made national news.
• On his March 16, 2018, TV broadcast, Taylor’s Joshua Media Ministries International (JMMI) volunteer/employee/possible “armor bearer” Joseph Busch gives a testimonial claiming Taylor raised his dead cousin to life via a text message. Was Busch coerced into giving false testimony? Considering the current charges and evidence of coercion that has already been made public, was he a victim or an active participant in fraud?
• The JMMI website reported, “Ever since he was first saved, David E. Taylor has continually ministered to the poor. Not only has he fed the poor in America, but overseas in 3rd world nations he has continually sponsored programs that feed the poor.” However, Trinity Foundation reviewed JMMI’s 990s for ten years, 2008-2017, and found no financial assistance reported for assisting individuals or organizations in America or foreign nations during that time period (Statement of Functional Expenses, page 10, lines 1, 2 and 3 of 990s). An audit of their books since they stopped filing the public form 990 could disprove the claims they are funding charitable programs oversees.
• In 2019, Trinity Foundation uncovered evidence of JMMI falsely misrepresenting photos from another non-profit organization’s water drilling project as their own acts of charity. The JMMI website featured a collage of photos with the caption “David E. Taylor Building Home for Human Trafficking Victims and Water Wells in 3rd World Countries”.^[3]

By using image search, we discovered that at least three of the collage photos originated from the thewaterproject.org which drills wells in Uganda. ^[4] Some of those photos continue to be used on the JMMI website in 2025 on the ministry’s Urgent Request page.[5]

• Taylor and his announcers also mention helping Jewish holocaust survivors over and over in videos, and here’s the latest quote from a video published August 24, 2025: “… He’s helping with that, helping people in Israel. He’s been involved even in helping the victims of the Holocaust. Their children and the generations after them are still feeling the trauma and the pain from what happened many years ago…” Taylor has ties to Polish-Israeli Andre Gasiorowski a criminal on the run from Poland. It is likely any funds sent from Taylor’s church to Mr. Gasiorowski’s Israeli non-profit never reached Holocaust victims. Gasiorowski co-founded the conglomerate Art-B which looted the Polish banking system. Then Gasiorowski fled the country. He moved to Israel to avoid extradition in 1991. The Washington Post reported that through a check-kiting scandal “Art-B shuffled about $18 billion through the banking system, picking up an estimated $360 million in interest on money that was in several accounts at the same time.”

David E. Taylor with Andre Gasiorowski

Taylor’s JMMI social media has made the following humanitarian effort claims via social media:

1. Building water wells overseas which is about $1500 per village
2. To build villages up – $30k per village
3. Buying turkeys for children during Thanksgiving
4. Purchasing gifts for children’s hospitals and orphanages.
5. Feeding the homeless in America
6. Pay rent for people in need like single mothers.
7. Support children rescued from sex slave trafficking.

JMMI’s website mission statement reads “Throughout the years, JMMI has funded many humanitarian projects including: feeding thousands in Detroit at the Northeastern Headquarters, construction water wells in third world countries, supporting woman coming out of abusive situations, caring for orphans, and supporting local food banks.  JMMI is committed to establishing local mission stations that daily feed the poor, building water wells around the world, training young people how to be productive members in society, bring racial equality to each generation and equip the generations to come to bring justice, equity, and equal rights throughout the world.  Currently JMMI is in the beginning stages of building ‘Refuge Homes’”.

Taylor’s website claimed it had 1800 churches underneath the umbrella of JMMI, but once again, where is the evidence?

David Taylor claims that he is the pope of the 21^st century—that he has been given the keys to the kingdom now just as they were given initially to the apostle Peter.

A Taylor Facebook video claims followers could experience the following miraculous powers: dominion over water, dominion and mastery over fire, invisibility, time travel, walking on water, hyper-jumping, translation, anti-aging powers, shadow powers, dreamers, electricity powers, and multiplication miracles (showing an artist’s image of Jesus breaking and multiplying bread for the thousands).

A 3 ½ minute slick video on Taylor’s JMMI website solicits students to register with their “Inheritance by Lineage University”.  The video promises students who register with their “Campus for the Harvest” will learn how to walk in dominion and mastery over all the elements at the “The Greater Works Institute of the Supernatural with David E. Taylor”.

It promises modern demonstration of some of these powers: Transfiguration, Translation, Mastery and Dominion over Water, Mastery and Dominion over Air or Wind, Ascension, Descension, Shakers, Movers, Time Travel, Hyper Jumping, Transportation, Shadow Powers, Teleportation, and Dominion and Mastery over Time and Space.

“These are just a few of the greater works or marvel powers! There are so many more marvel demonstrations you will learn from Apostle Taylor through this powerful training!”

What young adult, while still somewhat immature, would not be drawn into Taylor’s cult by such wild and we would add magical promises?

What Next?

We respectfully ask the United States Justice Department to inspect Taylor’s organization’s books to verify that his organization did not build an orphanage, has not built any water wells in Africa, does not regularly help holocaust victims, does not regularly pay rent for people in need, does not regularly meet the needs of the poor overseas, and has not established hundreds of churches around the world.

Trinity Foundation can provide ample proof of these and other outrageous claims made by Taylor and by his followers by proxy.  Nor has Taylor fed millions with his Convoy of Miracles 18-wheeler tractor trailers they use to haul their stage props around the country.

From the Lexis Nexis database, we could find only two heavy trucks, 1XKYD49X6GJ491875 and 1XKYD49XXGJ491846 owned by Joshua Media Ministries International, but not the five 18-wheeler trucks that some of the videos appear to indicate.  These records indicate that the registration for each of these heavy trucks has expired but further research is necessary.

Trinity Foundation doesn’t doubt that his large trucks have also been used to meet humanitarian needs when not hauling his stage props of wheelchairs, crutches, and walkers to new crusade venues, but these wild claims appear patently false.

People like David E. Taylor regularly claim that God gave them divine messages, but these supposed supernatural communications are acts of deception. Too many times, fraudulent religious leaders escape prosecution while using false testimonials—attributing things to God that never happened, to induce donations.

[1] August 1, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/david.e.taylor.116393/posts/she-walked-again-after-2-decades-was-raised-from-the-dead-and-god-gave-her-27-su/1276653737440591/

[2] July 2, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/david.e.taylor.116393/posts/dead-for-14-minutes-meets-jesus-face-to-face-and-told-about-russia-nuking-americ/1253106876461944/

[3]  “Helping Those in Need” article screenshot, Retrieved August 1, 2019

[4] “Rwengoma – Wells for Schools” screenshot, The Water Project, Retrieved August 1, 2019

[5] https://joshuamediaministries.org/urgent-request/