Trinity Broadcasting Network

===Lawsuits===
In September 2004, the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported that Paul Crouch had paid former TBN employee Enoch Lonnie Ford a $425,000 formal settlement to end a [[wrongful termination]] lawsuit in 1998.<ref name="1996scandal">{{cite magazine|title=Former TBN Employee Alleges Gay Tryst With Paul Crouch|url=http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/septemberweb-only/9-13-11.0.html|author=Ted Olsen|magazine=[[Christianity Today]]|date=September 1, 2004|access-date=December 25, 2006|archive-date=February 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207200817/http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/septemberweb-only/9-13-11.0.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ford alleged that he and Crouch had a homosexual tryst during his employment with the ministry.<ref>{{cite web|title=TBN's Crouch Rebuts Sexual Harassment Story|url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/79701-TBN_s_Crouch_Rebuts_Sexual_Harassment_Story.php|work=Multichannel News}}</ref> TBN officials acknowledged the settlement but contested Ford's credibility, noting that he had previously been convicted for [[child molestation]] and drug abuse. In 1996, Ford was fired by TBN after he was arrested for drug-related offenses and returned to prison for a year. Ford allegedly threatened to sue TBN for wrongful termination and [[sexual harassment]] after the network refused to hire him following his release, resulting in his claims against Crouch. TBN officials stated that the settlement was made in order to avoid a lengthy and expensive lawsuit.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bad faith, blackmail and a troubled TV evangelist |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article32197.ece |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=September 14, 2004 |access-date=September 17, 2007 }}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In late 2003, Ford attempted to [[extort]] Crouch, threatening to release an autobiographical [[manuscript]] of their alleged affair if TBN did not purchase the document for $10 million. In October 2004, Judge Robert J. O'Neill awarded Crouch $136,000 in legal fees to be paid by Ford for his violation of the terms of the settlement agreement, specifically the prohibition of discussing the details of the settlement. On March 15, 2005, Ford appeared on the [[Ion Television|PAX TV]] reality series ''[[Lie Detector (TV series)|Lie Detector]]'' to be given a [[polygraph test]]; the results of the test were never broadcast or made public.<ref>{{cite news|title=Born again: Evangelist sex scandal|author=Lloyd Grove|newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]|date=March 31, 2005}}</ref>

In June 2012, the ''[[Orange County Register]]'' reported that Carra Crouch, a granddaughter of Paul and Jan Crouch, alleged in a lawsuit that she had been [[rape]]d by a TBN employee when she was 13 years old.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suit alleges TBN covered up rape of 13-year-old|url=http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2012/06/21/suit-alleges-tbn-covered-up-rape-of-13-year-old/157357/|newspaper=Orange County Register|date=June 21, 2012}}</ref> Carra claimed to have been [[sexual abuse|sexually abused]] while staying at an [[Atlanta]] hotel during TBN's "Spring Praise-a-Thon" in 2006. She also claimed that Jan Crouch and TBN attorney John Casoria blamed her for the incident, yet agreed not to turn the fired employee in to authorities if he did not file for [[unemployment]], [[worker's compensation|worker's comp]] or [[Equal Employment Opportunity Commission|EEOC]] benefits. TBN attorney Colby May "vehemently denied" Carra's claims.<ref>{{cite web|title=Granddaughter of Paul and Jan Crouch Alleges Cover-up of Rape by TBN Employee When She Was 13|url=http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/06/granddaughter_of_paul_and_jan-crouch_alleges_cover-up.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625224118/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/06/granddaughter_of_paul_and_jan-crouch_alleges_cover-up.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 25, 2012|newspaper=[[Orange County Weekly]]|date=June 25, 2012}}</ref> In 2017, a year after Jan Crouch's death, a jury awarded Carra $2 million in damages for "mental suffering", but found that Jan had not been acting as a "Trinity Clergy Member" and therefore wasn't legally required to report the assault.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stevens|first=Matt|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/trinity-broadcasting-verdict.html|title=Jury Finds Televangelist Jan Crouch Shunned Granddaughter's Report of Rape|work=The New York Times|date=June 7, 2017|access-date=September 26, 2017}}</ref>