Robert Tilton

===Allegations of exploitation of vulnerable people===
Anthony, a Christian minister whose organization works with the homeless and the poor on the east side of Dallas, first took an interest in Tilton's ministry in the late 1980s after encountering needy people who told him they had lost all of their money making donations to high-profile televangelists, especially Tilton. Curious about the pervasiveness of the problem, the Trinity Foundation got on the mailing lists of several televangelists, including Tilton, and started keeping records of the many types of solicitations they received almost daily from various ministries.

Former [[Coca-Cola]] executive Harry Guetzlaff came to Trinity after he had been turned away from Tilton's church when he found himself on hard times following a divorce. He had been a longtime donor and gave up his last $5,000 as a "vow of faith" just weeks earlier. Guetzlaff's experience, combined with the sheer magnitude of mailings from Tilton's ministry, spurred Anthony, a former [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] intelligence officer and licensed [[private investigator]], to start a full investigation of Tilton's ministry. Guetzlaff joined Anthony in the task of gathering details on Tilton's operation and later did much of the legwork in uncovering the paper trail for the ABC News investigation.<ref name="trinity">[http://www.trinityfi.org/press/newyorker.html "The Antichrist of East Dallas"], Burkhard Bilger, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', first published on December 6, 2004; retrieved June 11, 2006.</ref>