The pastor and his son are accused of doing some very strange things.
The pastor and his son were arrested this morning for bilking taxpayers of $8 million. The police made an arrest at the house. The elder Evans was being helped.
A Florida pastor and his son have been arrested on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal Covid relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Disney World. https://t.co/fwvoPoz7XX
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 14, 2022
TheEdwards are Christian missionaries from Canada. They ran a ministry.
The ASLAN International Ministry had an average monthly payroll expenses of over $2.7 million and over 480 employees, according to the indictment. According to prosecutors, those numbers were not real.
The ASLAN International loan was approved by the government in 2020.
I went to prison for loan fraud.
In April 2020 investigators began to see some red flags around the loan.
An investigation by NBC News found that the ministry's accountant had dementia and hadn't done any work for the organization in a year.
Garbage bags full of shredded documents and electronic devices were found by the highway patrol when they pulled over theEdwards family.
The Bureau of Justice published a research manual on money flow through financial institutions.
It took 18 months for the charges to be filed despite the evidence.
Evan and his son appeared before a judge at the federal courthouse in central Florida. According to WESH-2 News, Josh didn't answer the judge's questions. A judge ordered a mental health evaluation.
The community's reaction has been mixed.
We would like to hear the whole story. According to a cousin, it's out of character for a man of God.
Some neighbors weren't as nice.
A neighbor tells NBC that he stole money during the Pandemic. It was taken in the name of God. That makes you the ugliest person on the planet.
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