Originally published at: Televangelist fraudster Jim Bakker ordered to pay $156,000 for selling fake Covid cure | Boing Boing
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So no punitive damages? Seems like a slap on the wrist.
The cost of the kits themselves doesn’t even begin to cover the harm caused by these scams.
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I wish they’d get an injunction on him having a TV show and a “church”…
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And those viewers will donate the money back to Bakker on the next pledge drive, where he asks for money to help save his ministry from “recent legal problems.”
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“The god-less government is trying to shut down god’s holy ministry. Will you allow some liberal in Washington to shut god up? Tithe today!”
The bullshit writes itself.
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He’s a piece of shit but, as they say, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.
Bakker’s website also listed a case of 12 bottles for “$300 or more.”
A case? A better grifter would have offered the bottles in the same kind of bucket he sells his prepper slop in. His marks love their buckets.
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wonder what was in that bottle that these dupes were ingesting?
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SCOTUS has made it clear over the last 5 years that christianity has most favored nation status.
If you say you’re doing or refusing to do anything for religious reasons, and say your a christian, you get a free pass for breaking the law
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Colloidal Silver. It turns the skin blue if you ingest too much of it.
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sounds expensive. Probably blue kool-aid.
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Should be sentenced to three years of eating his own dog food.
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His 'church" is nothing more than a thinly-disguised for-profit corporation. Not sure about shutting it down but it damn sure doesn’t deserve its tax-free status.
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Jim Bakker: evangelist, molecular biologist, and occasional jailbird
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What say you, Dr. Zoidberg?
If only.
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Watch him hook up as a silent partner with a like-minded charlatan, form an LLC named Cee19Defender, and employ whatever weasel words it takes to pull in the suckers but without using these words: “…diagnose, prevent, mitigate, treat or cure…”
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He’s pulling the easiest con in the book and he’s still a failure. Just like when he got caught the first time. These people are giving you their money. All you have to do is not tell any lies before they give you their money. So many evangelists pull the same fraud but can never be convicted because there is no law against being given money.
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I agree completely, so long as we understand that the government can’t have any part in saying which religions are real and deserve tax-free status. Everything that says it’s a religion is a religion under the law, even if their theology is patent nonsense.
You and I might understand, for example, that Catholicism, with its elaborate drag and ritual cannibalism, is a transparent farce. But the government is barred by the First Amendment from saying it isn’t a religion or stripping it of the privileges that that entails.
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Better to focus on pulling their tax-exempt status when they start meddling in politics and the business of the state, per the same amendment. Religious fundies get way too much latitude from the government in that regard.
