'The Lord told us to': US pastor says he stole $1m from Christians to remodel home

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/us-pastor-1m-cryptocurrency-scheme-christians-denver

Their lord sure works in mysterious ways. Probably the same one most evilgelicals say they worship.

A Colorado pastor who is charged with stealing more than $1m from his Christian community in a cryptocurrency scheme has admitted to the fraud but argued that God instructed him to carry it out.

Eli Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn, are charged with creating and selling their cryptocurrency, known as “INDXcoin”, to Christians based in their home town of Denver, Colorado, allegedly telling would-be investors that the Lord had told him people would become rich if they invested, the state’s division of securities announced in a press release on Thursday.

But INDXcoin was “practically worthless” in reality, prosecutors said in the statement. Investors lost millions of dollars while the Regalados used their investments for lavish living.

[lame54]

1. They didn't call it Christo-currency?

[Deep State Witch]

4. LOL!

I wish we still had DUzys!

[erronis]

8. We do, of a type. There is a "Rec" per post which works pretty well.

Be nice if there were some aggregating (aggravating?) statistics on the per post Recs.....

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Prove it

[dchill]

3. I'm thinking there's a lot of that going around...

Mischievous Jesus raises his palms and says, "Who - ME?"

[tanyev]

5. Not all the voices are God, pastor.

[hildegaard28]

6. LOL

Sure, God said to him, "Just ignore that little commandment about not stealing. I wasn't serious about that."

[Chainfire]

7. Well, hell, how can we prosecute someone for carrying out god's requests?

He needs to finish his renovation project and go back to doing god's work without interference from the government.

God has been telling me that the bank's money is mine and that I should go and get it, smiting anyone that tries to get in my way!

[republianmushroom]

9. Hopefully the Lord also told you, you are going to spend the next 5 to 10 yeas in prison.

[Prairie Gates]

10. "Investors lost millions of dollars"

What kind of an idiot would give these two clowns a single red cent?

[erronis]

11. Pretty obviously the same type of people who would vote for (r)epuglicons and trump

Critical thinking is not on their list of talents.