TBN is a Christian network that broadcasts the gospel with dozens of satellites and thousands of cable networks deliver that signal to every corner of the globe. Their personal site says things like: “From shore to shore, border to border and around the world TBN is ‘touching billions now’”.
However, in 2004 TBN got some bad publicity. According to Lonnie Ford, a worker for the station, he and Paul Crouch, TBN’s president and founder, had an inappropriate and potentially scandalous sexual encounter.
Crouch has denied everything. For eight years the two sides were in and out of court and the relevant documents were sealed. However, the Los Angeles Times got wind of the affair and it went public with an article that prompted TBN denounced the allegation in a statement.
It is understandable that TBN has fought so hard to keep allegations out of the public’s eye. It seems they do not want to remind the public of the scandals of the 1980s that brought down preacher Jim Swaggert and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker who were behind the Praise the Lord network.
Questions have risen about the money the Crouchs have made and how they have spent it. Much like other televangelists, the Crouchs enjoy luxuries such as a $7.5 million oceanfront Newport Beach home, but insist it is property of the church and then that it is their reward for their good deeds.
Yet another scam with the same kind of people- people that take advantage of other people's faith to make a buck. They blatantly lie to get people to send in money and they get away with it.
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