Category Archives: Church Frauds & Related Crimes

Fleecing The Faithful – Prelude: Down the Garden Path & Opening Pandora’s Box

The 1989 Friends Ministers Conference was the fourth in a series that were held every five years. The event had started out as the Friends Pastors Conference, but this was changed for the 1984 gathering in a bow to traditional Quaker nomenclature, and to accommodate the sensibilities of the handful of attenders who came from … Continue reading Fleecing The Faithful – Prelude: Down the Garden Path & Opening Pandora’s Box

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February 26, 1998: Ex-Quaker Superintendent In Kansas Fraud Trial

by Chuck Fager Wichita, Kansas – Maurice Roberts, the former Superintendent of Mid-America Yearly Meeting, testified for several hours Thursday as a key witness in a major church fraud trial here.  Priscilla Deters, 63, of Walnut, California is being tried on 13 charges of wire and mail fraud in U.S. District Court. The charges are … Continue reading February 26, 1998: Ex-Quaker Superintendent In Kansas Fraud Trial

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Deters Trial – Feb. 26: Cherokee Quaker Church Fraud

Church Money Used for “Ponzi” Fraud Scheme–Kansas Investigator Update by Chuck Fager Wichita, Kansas – Maurice Roberts, the former Superintendent of Mid-America Yearly Meeting, testified for several hours Thursday [February 26, 1998] as a key witness in a major church fraud trial here.  Priscilla Deters, 63, of Walnut, California is being tried on 13 charges … Continue reading Deters Trial – Feb. 26: Cherokee Quaker Church Fraud

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