Within five years, a businessman tithed about $300,000 to a Michigan megachurch. But after a grand jury indicted David McQueen in 2012 for running a $46.5 million Ponzi scheme, the federal government asked Resurrection Life Church for the money back.
In February, the 8,000-member congregation in suburban Grand Rapids said no. “[We] had no knowledge of the source of the funds,” finance pastor Bernard Blauwkamp wrote to the US Attorneys Office. Regardless, the money—donated from 2005 to 2009—was spent, he said.
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