Arkansas AG sues TV pastor over virus treatment claims
Source: AP
By ANDREW DeMILLO
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Arkansas attorney general on Tuesday sued Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker over his promotion of a product falsely touted as a cure for the illness caused by the coronavirus.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed the lawsuit in Arkansas against Bakker and Morningside Church Productions, less than three months after the state of Missouri filed a similar lawsuit.
Rutledges lawsuit says 385 Arkansans made purchases from Bakkers company totaling approximately $60,524 for colloidal silver, a product often sold on the internet as a dietary supplement.
Jim Bakker has exploited Arkansas consumers by leveraging COVID-19 fears to sell over $60,000 worth of their products that do nothing to fight the virus, Rutledge said in a statement released by her office. The Republican attorney general added that her case was about consumer fraud, not freedom of religion.
FILE - In this March 19, 1987, file photo, Television evangelist Jim Bakker poses in Columbia, S.C. Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker, in a court filing on Monday, May 4, 2020, is asking a judge to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus. The lawsuit said Bakker and a guest made the cure claim during a program on Feb. 12. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky File)
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Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)There's a fool born every minute. Who said that, P.T. Barnum?
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)louzke9
(296 posts)Because his wife, Tammy Faye died in 2007!
Gore1FL
(21,206 posts)Jerry Falwell took it over. It then became a money siphon because people were a little put-off by Bakker's scandals. It was abandoned.
It's really not surprising to me that he is still at it. What surprises me is that people keep going back for the con.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_USA
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)She promoted him and Tammy to anyone who would listen. After they were exposed, you didn't hear a word out of her about the Bakkers. If I remember correctly, I think she was investing in one of the homes or condos. Whatever they were selling.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)mpcamb
(2,885 posts)Bakker on Feb. 12 broadcast of The Jim Bakker Show, began pedaling 'Silver Solution'.
He's been at this for months.
They gave that little bearded worm plenty of time to hide the money and the evidence.