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Megachurch pastor indicted on $3.5 million fraud
ABC News ^ | Mar 30, 2018 | JUSTIN DOOM

Posted on 03/30/2018 10:57:20 AM PDT by Gamecock

A former religious adviser to President George W. Bush has been accused by federal prosecutors of defrauding investors of $3.5 million.

Pastor Kirbyjohn Caldwell and a business partner, Gregory Smith, sold millions of dollars of worthless Chinese bonds, telling investors to "remain faithful and that they would receive their money," according to documents obtained by ABC Houston station KTRK.

Both men could face significant jail time and be forced to forfeit assets.

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1 posted on 03/30/2018 10:57:20 AM PDT by Gamecock
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2 posted on 03/30/2018 10:58:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: Gamecock

Religious advisor? I don’t need no stinkin religious advisor!

How bad off must George have been?


3 posted on 03/30/2018 11:00:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Gamecock

I don’t remember hearing of this religious advisor during the Bush years.


4 posted on 03/30/2018 11:02:38 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Gamecock

Notice how they lead with the Bush connection? I’ve never heard of the guy.


5 posted on 03/30/2018 11:03:34 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Gamecock

Never let your pastor be your financial advisor. Your pastor can instruct you to spend your money wisely and in ways to honor God but he should never be the one to tell you where to invest your money.


6 posted on 03/30/2018 11:03:58 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rdl6989
"I don’t remember hearing of this religious advisor during the Bush years."

Ditto. He was probably one of a dozen advisors who served on a panel or something.
7 posted on 03/30/2018 11:05:12 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Meh. I don’t waste a drop of energy defending anything Bush anymore.

Let that globalist fraud family rot.


8 posted on 03/30/2018 11:05:53 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: rjsimmon

“Never let your pastor be your financial advisor. Your pastor can instruct you to spend your money wisely and in ways to honor God but he should never be the one to tell you where to invest your money.”

Like Murdoch is always begging for “seed” and shysters like Swaggart, Bakker, etc prey on the feeble minded.


9 posted on 03/30/2018 11:07:20 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rjsimmon

““Never let your pastor be your financial advisor.”

Or your wife’s personal “counselor”.


10 posted on 03/30/2018 11:08:58 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Gamecock

Praying for and Preying on people’s greed


11 posted on 03/30/2018 11:09:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: over3Owithabrain

“Let that globalist fraud family rot.”

Right there with you. I saw an article with Laura cozying up to Mooch. If I needed any more evidence...

Not much more you can say. Lost all respect for the whole lot of them


12 posted on 03/30/2018 11:10:39 AM PDT by DallasGal (When your honor, integrity and trustworthiness are gone, you are nothing.)
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To: Gamecock

I notice the article makes no mention of the guy endorsing Barack Obama in 2008.


13 posted on 03/30/2018 11:14:18 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: rdl6989
I don’t remember hearing of this religious advisor during the Bush years.

I do. He was referred to as W's pastor.

A Good and Faithful
Confidence-Keeper A conversation with the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, friend and pastor to President Bush

14 posted on 03/30/2018 11:15:22 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: rdl6989

He did the benediction at both of GWB’s inaugurations.


15 posted on 03/30/2018 11:15:56 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: WayneS
I notice the article makes no mention of the guy endorsing Barack Obama in 2008

Probably with the approval of W.

16 posted on 03/30/2018 11:16:32 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Nope. He was the dumdass’s pastor.


17 posted on 03/30/2018 11:17:19 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Gamecock

No matter who it is, if you do something like this to Seniors and other hard working people, then you need to suffer the consequences of loss of freedom.


18 posted on 03/30/2018 11:19:13 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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19 posted on 03/30/2018 11:23:32 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Gamecock

Probably the same “advisor” who advised Bush to remain quiet for 8 years while the LEFT ridiculed him and conservatives, than advised him to finally open his mouth and go after Trump.

Some Advisor. Bush knows how to pick em. (Bush is the failure in all of this..can’t stand the man)


20 posted on 03/30/2018 11:23:49 AM PDT by vespa300
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