Scleroderma Information » Scleroderma » PAUL CROUCH SETTLED A $40,000,000 LAWSUIT
Question:
To avoid a scandalous trial or prosecution for Plagiarism which is a Federal Crime, the Management of TBN preferred to settle the matter out of Court.
Hi David, That’s an interesting article. However, I don’t believe the detail about Plagiarism being a Federal Crime. Cheers, Eugene Shubert http://www.everythingimportant.org
Response:
Shortly after the debut of the Movie The Omega Code, a plagiarism Lawsuit was filed by Sylvia Fleener against Paul, Jan Crouch, their son Matthew and several associates of TBN. The Lawsuit was scheduled for trial on January 2nd 2002.in the U.S. District Court of Los Angeles. On January 1st 2002 the Newspaper Orange County Register reported that the Crouches paid an undisclosed sum to settle the lawsuit out of Court. The plaintiff Sylvia Fleener agreed with the terms of the settlement and the lawsuit was dropped. http://www.rickross.com/reference/tbn/tbn6.html More than a year has passed and the religious media never mentioned a word concerning the costly cinematographic Misadventure of Mr, Mrs Crouch and collaborators. A thick veil of Silence has been covering this Settlement, no one knows how many Million of dollars the Moguls of TBN. paid to avoid a scandalous trial and a potential defeat in Court. The word transparency could not be found in Paul and Jan Crouch’s repertoire, they did not inform their audience about this lawsuit. The Gospel Entrepeneurs did not even consider themself accountable to their generous Contributors. Until presently not even their biggest supporters, who have regularly donated huge amount of money to TBN, were informed that their financial contributions have been used in the settlement of a 40 Million dollars Lawsuit. Without providing explanations, not even expressing regrets or apologies, and as if nothing happened, the Gospel Millionaires conducted business as usual on TBN. Paul and Jan kept the mind of their followers very busy with astonishing spiritual revelations, with great power of persuasion they preached unbelievable tales of new miraculous healing and most importantly they did not fail to ask for more Donations. Keeping a perfect composure at all time, and letting absolutely nothing transpire, the Crouches have shown great talents of accomplished performers, having absolutely nothing to envy from the best actors of Hollywood. Not a single believer in their audience e ver suspected that the Gospel Entertainers had troubles with the law. Even while reading this post, many cannot still believe that Paul and Jan Crouch were facing charges in a U.S. District Court, accused of violating copyright laws. To avoid a scandalous trial or prosecution for Plagiarism which is a Federal Crime, the Management of TBN preferred to settle the matter out of Court. Since the beginning Fleener believed that her Novel had all the ingredients to create a great movie, specially for this reason she forwarded the Manuscript to the Crouches Many witnesses including employees of TBN could have testified that Sylvia Fleener had entrusted Paul and Jan with the manuscript of her novel originally titled The Omega Syndrome. After reception of the Manuscript nobody from TBN contacted again the Author. Three years later when Syvia Fleener went to watch the movie The Omega Code produced by Paul Crouch and his son Matthew, she could not believe her eyes! In court records Fleener said: "I was literally devastated by the similarities". Before filing her Plagiarism lawsuit, Sylvia was a fan of the Crouches and for many years she regularly contributed money to support TBN. In complete disbelief she could hardly accept the fact that the religious Leaders of TBN had actually duped her. This was a great shock for Fleener who suffers of internal scleroderma. an auto-immune disease that caused her skin to harden. Afflicted, betrayed and disconcerted Sylvia Fleener said: "I struggled to understand how this could have been done by those people, who had convinced me of their ‘Christian’ principles on their broadcasts." In spite of her illness she courageously took her case to court, Rebecca Holden a good friend of Fleener explained, by doing so the plaintiff wanted to expose the Crouches so people aren’t duped by them. Rebecca also added: "They’re the ones who give Christians a bad name." This is so hypocritical of our Christian Leaders who never fail to point their fingers at the Sins of Hollywood while they are keeping their eyes and mouth totally shut in front of blatant wickedness in the Church. The Hollywood producers are no Saints, however they do not make movies by transforming copyrighted manuscripts without the acknowledgment of their authors. Our religious leaders are completely blind and dumb when hard working Christians are being solicited day and night for donations by Gospel millionaires and their hard earned money is spent to settle out of court a 40 Million dollars Plagiarism Lawsuit. With great nostalgia Christians are wishing to see again the days of Righteousness and Holiness of the Early Church, unfortunately we are left to witness evil days where defrauding and deceiving believers is a vocation. For ages Christianity has been praying for the sick, unfortunately with this new breed of "Evangelists", preying on the sick and the elderly became a Ministry… Mt:5:13: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. To access the report of the settlement directly from the Orange County Register web site please click below: http://www.ocregister.com/archive/
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