OPERATION BLESSING IS 100% DELIVERED TO THE NEEDY END USERS.
Why so much hate for an organization that helps so many people? Bizarre. You've worked for OB as I have (on several occasions, in the U.S. and Colombia)? I hate to say it so bluntly, but you're speaking from ignorance, my friend.
That must have taken some digging. I'm usually not that impressed with great efforts to ferret out flaws in those who work hard at doing things right.
1. I suspect that there is no available record or proof whether Pat personally or the mine did or did not reimburse Operation Blessing, in money, diamonds or stock.
2. Assuming the worst, I am confident that if and when anyone around Pat became aware of even an appearance of wrong, that Pat corrected it. I assume there's no readily available record or proof of that pro or con.
3. Pat has dedicated his whole life and all his substance to the service of The Master. The way he has ran CBN and Operation Blessing make that abundantly clear. His character as displayed so routinely on TV AND IN FRONT OF WORKERS HE'S AROUND makes clear his Godly priorities. His donation of $200 million is not chicken feed. His not taking a salary, while numberically minor, is not something he had to do to even be prissy proper.
4. At his age, given his accomplishments, he has little else to do with any attraction or interest at all but to serve The Lord with all he is and all he has. I think he's doing marvelously at just that. More power to him and may God continue to abundantly bless him.