Jim Whittington
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Reverend Jim Whittington (born 1941 in Grifton, North Carolina). Whittington is a televangelist that spent 10 years in prison for money laundering, mail fraud, conspiracy, and interstate transportation of stolen property from his evangelist crusades and direct mail business in the 1980s.
In 1992, Whittington and four others were convicted of stealing $848,532 from Valeria Lust while Whittington was the on-air presence for Fountain of Life Ministries.
Prosecutors said the minister kept his luxury lifestyle after leaving prison in 1995 and in 10 years had repaid less than 2 percent of the money he owed. They said his ministry paid for cars, jewelry, and a country club membership. Whittington had been known to own expensive high-speed boats and a Rolls-Royce.
On November 2, 2005, U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Howard ordered Whittington to pay Lust $5,500 a month.
Today Whittington lives in Atlanta and the focus of his crusades and infovangelist late night TV shows are shown in the poor areas of Jamaica and St Kitts.
When Whittington was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison in the mid 1980s, the Judge famously said to Whittington, “You’ve picked the last flake of flesh from the carcass of the widow you defrauded."
