Television evangelist on trial
NZPA-Reuter North Carolina An evangelist, Jim Bakker, whose bankrupt P.T.L. television ministry made hundreds of millions of dollars before he was disgraced in a sex scandal, goes on trial today on charges of defrauding supporters to pay for his opulent lifestyle. Bakker, kicked out of the ministry of the fundamentalist Assemblies of God church for adultery and alleged homosexual activity, is accused of mail and wire fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 120 years in prison and more than SUSS million ($8.47M) in fines if convicted of all charges. Bakker,' aged 48, founded P.T.L. — which stand for Praise The Lord or People That Love — in 1974 and built it into an operation that included a theme park and a cable television network. The empire crumbled in March, 1987, when Bakker stepped down after confessing that years before he had a sexual encounter with a former church secretary, Jessica Hahn,
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Press, 22 August 1989, Page 10
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