[fuzzylogic]

“no wrongdoing” - then how do they have the authority to make the church do anything?

This seems like a 1A violation.

[L,TOWM]

The legal doctorine is called “clawback” and it is used be receivers unwinding a ponzi scheme to level out the losses.

In a Ponzi Scheme, earlier investors are provided return on principal and often return OF principal with the principal (original investment) of newer investors. The theory is that you unwittingly benefited from criminal activity and should not have, since you participated in the later investors losing their money.

https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/a2e6cab3/even-the-winners-lose-in-a-ponzi-scheme-payments-made-to-investors-in-a-ponzi-scheme-clawed-back-as-fraudulent-conveyances

[TexasGator]

““no wrongdoing” - then how do they have the authority to make the church do anything?”

The church did nothing wrong but the source of the donations was money “stolen” via a company operating a ponzi scheme.