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Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker

Behind the Bastards

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The Fucking Appeal That Was Part of the Grift

As essentially the ceo of his own tv network jim never let facts get in his way on one occasion when his network found itself owing twenty thousand dollars with nothing in the bank he wrote a bad check and sent it off to the station manager enough money came in the next day to come to the balance. He would tell this story openly to people um and he would claim it as like look at how good goddess look at how great you know my faith is that i was willing to do this but he was just writing bad checks  which is a crime which is absolutely a crime this is check fraud he just got luckyUm but yeah he bragged regularly about check fraud http://www.

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