Jim Whittington

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Reverend Jim Whittington (born February 16, 1941 in Dillon, South Carolina). Whittington is a televangelist that spent 2 1/2 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^[1].

Prosecutors said the minister kept his luxurious lifestyle after leaving prison in 1995 and in ten years had repaid less than two 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^{[citation needed]}.

On November 2, 2005, U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Howard ordered Whittington to pay Lust $5,500 a month^{[citation needed]}.

Today Whittington lives in Atlanta and his crusades and infovangelist late night TV shows are focused on areas of Jamaica and St Kitts^{[citation needed]}.

When Whittington was originally sentenced to ten years in prison in 1992 the judge famously said to Whittington, “You’ve picked the last flake of flesh from the carcass of the widow you defrauded."^{[citation needed]}

Whittington has been married four times and has five daughters and one son^{[citation needed]}.