Re: [asa] FYI: Evangelist arrested on federal charges

From: Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Jul 14 2006 - 08:59:21 EDT

At 08:16 AM 7/14/2006, mansar@hushmail.com wrote:

>Kent Hovind: Evangelist arrested on federal charges Pensacola News
>Journal, USA July 14, 2006 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15261
>
>A Pensacola evangelist who owns the defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land
>in Pensacola was arrested Thursday on 58 federal charges, including
>failing to pay $473,818 in employee-related taxes and making threats
>against investigators. Kent Hovind, who often calls himself "Dr.
>Dino," has been sparring
>with the IRS for at least 17 years on his claims that he is employed
>by God, receives no income, has no expenses and owns no property.
>
>"The debtor apparently maintains that as a minister of God,
>everything he owns belongs to God and he is not subject to paying
>taxes to the United States on money he receives for doing God's
>work," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lewis Killian Jr. wrote when he
>dismissed a claim from Hovind in 1996.
>
>Hovind, an avowed creationist, has widely publicized his "standing
>offer" to pay $250,000 to anyone who can provide scientific evidence
>of evolution.

@ Here's a picture of his Alma
Mater: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1665259/posts?page=5#5

~ Janice

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