Paul Crouch Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Criticisms and controversies== In 2000, Crouch was sued for $40 million<ref name="Post-Standard">News Service Report (5 January 2002) "West Virginia Woman Settles Suit with Network" ''The Post-Standard'' (Syracuse, New York) page B-2</ref> by author Sylvia Fleener, who accused Crouch of [[plagiarism]] in his popular end-times novel (and subsequent movie), ''[[The Omega Code]]''. Fleener's lawsuit alleged that the movie's plot was taken from her own novel, ''The Omega Syndrome''. A former Crouch personal assistant, Kelly Whitmore, revealed that she had encountered a loose-leaf binder in Jan Crouch's luggage that the Crouches referred to as "the End Times project" and that he often called it "The Omega" but said he disliked the working title, "especially the word 'Syndrome'. After the defendant's motion for summary judgment failed<ref>''Fleener v. Trinity Broadcasting Network'', 203 F. Supp. 2d 1142 (5 September 2001, United States District Court for the Central District of California)</ref> the case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.<ref name="Post-Standard"/><ref>Coker, Matt (11 January 2002) "A Clockwork Orange" ''OC Weekly'' (Orange County, California) page 10</ref> In September 2004, the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' reported that in 1998 Crouch paid Enoch Lonnie Ford, a former employee, a $425,000 formal settlement to end a [[wrongful termination]] lawsuit. The paper also reported that Ford had alleged a sexual relationship between the two men.<ref name="LobdellLATimesSep222004">{{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/sep/22/local/me-tbn22 |title=Ex-Worker Accusing TBN Pastor Says He Had Sex to Keep His Job|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 22, 2004|author=William Lobdell}}</ref> TBN officials denied the allegations.<ref name="LobdellLATimesSep222004"/> On March 15, 2005, Ford appeared at the taping of the [[ION Television]] show ''[[Lie Detector (TV series)|Lie Detector]]''. The show's producers decided not to air the show, and the outcome of the lie detector test was never released.<ref>Lloyd Grove, "Born again: Evangelist sex scandal," New York Daily News, March 31, 2005</ref> A May 2012 ''New York Times'' article reported on the personal spending of Paul and Jan Crouch, including "his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community" in [[Newport Beach, California]]. Paul Crouch received $400,000 in executive salary as president and his wife $365,000 as first vice president of TBN. [[Brittany Koper]], a granddaughter of the Crouches who had authority over finances, claimed that TBN appeared to have violated the IRS ban on "excess compensation" by nonprofit organizations.<ref>Eckholm, Eric [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry] ''New York Times'' May 4, 2012</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page