Robert Tilton

===Government involvement===
Despite Tilton's repeated denials of misconduct, the State of Texas and the federal government became involved in subsequent investigations, finding more causes for concern about Tilton's financial status with each new revelation. After nearly 10,000 pounds of prayer requests and letters to the Tilton ministry were found in a disposal bin at a Tulsa area recycling firm in February 1992, along with itemized receipts of their delivery from Tilton's main mail-handling service in Tulsa rather than from the church offices in Farmers Branch, Tilton admitted in a [[deposition (law)|deposition]] given to the [[Texas Attorney General]]'s office that he often prayed over computerized lists of prayer requests instead of the actual prayer requests themselves, and that prayer requests were in fact routinely thrown away after categorization.<ref name="the_prophet_of_prosperity" />

As each revelation became increasingly more damaging, viewership and donations declined dramatically. The last episode of ''Success-N-Life'' aired nationally on October 30, 1993. By that time, viewership had fallen 85 percent and monthly donations went from $8 million to $2 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trinityfi.org/press/tilton3.html|title=The Resurrection of Robert Tilton|access-date=April 15, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728130645/http://www.trinityfi.org/press/tilton3.html|archive-date=July 28, 2011}}</ref>