
Part Two: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker
Behind the Bastards
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What Do You Think's Gonna Happen?
Baker was committed to a psychiatric ward in the federal prison and the trial was put on hold for six days. His head of security recalled later that night he was curled up underneath his attorney's couch. He appealed but the court withheld his conviction. They did grant him a sentence reduction hearing though and dropped those 45 years down to just eight. Baker only actually served five before being paroled in 1994. Once out of minimum security prison Jim Baker wound up briefly in a halfway house before his fall from grace.
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