Lawsuit Filed Against Mormon Church For Donations Fraud

According to an ABC report, the lawsuit claims that the Mormon church spent their congregant’s donations that were solicited for charity on commercial purposes. Huntsman asserts that the church “repeatedly and publicly lied” about the spending of billions in contributions supposedly intended to pay for missionary work, temples, and other educational and charitable functions.

Huntsman, the son of billionaire philanthropist Huntsman Sr., believes he was defrauded out of millions that he donated for 24 years giving his weekly 10% tithe.

This is not a case about faith; it is a case about fraud and corporate greed.

A spokesman for the church said Huntsman resigned his membership last year and claimed his statement is “baseless.”

[Contributions] “are used for a broad array of religious purposes, including missionary work, education, humanitarian causes and the construction of meetinghouses, temples and other buildings important in the work of the Church.

Eric Hawkins said in the statement

Over a year ago a former church investment manager filed a whistleblower complaint to the IRS for fraud.

The complaint alleged that the church has misled members and possibly broken federal tax rules for religious organizations by using an affiliated investment arm to set aside about $1 billion a year from the $7 billion that the faith receives annually in member donations, says the ABC report.

In the lawsuit, Huntsman demanded he gets his donations back on repeated attempts proceeding the whistleblower filing, but the church’s corporation refused to comply. Huntsman believes the church is

effectively taking the position that it could do whatever it wanted with tithing funds.

Hawkins has said the claims are “based on a narrow perspective and limited information.”

Huntsman wants $5 million dollars from the lawsuit and plans to redonate the money to

organizations and communities whose members have been marginalized by the Church’s teachings and doctrines, including by donating to charities supporting LGBTQ, African-American, and women’s rights.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[4] Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. [5] Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 23:4-5

[6] But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. [7] Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. [8] And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

2 Corinthians 9:6-8

Huntsman, based on this report, sounds like a rich daddy’s boy who is upset people more greedy and spoiled than him extortioned his money.

This is typical of all these organizations and denominations. They are all about money and nothing else. Their cute little sermons, whether it’s Mormon, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Charismatic, etc., are all about fleecing their flocks out of as much money as possible. Taking doctrine and salvation completely out of the equation, do you realize how much money could be spent on producing things such as Bibles and gospel tracts? But instead, all of these church businesses are interested in building their little empires of sacrilege.

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