A Friendly Letter
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First Month, 1998
Issue No. 138
Excerpts from
Fleecing the Faithful
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FULL TEXT OF THE REPORT
UPDATES
- A Friendly Letter Returns: The Productions Plus Scandal
- Stranger than Fiction: The Cast of Productions Plus
- The Wall of Silence
- Crazy Ideas: Double or Nothing
- A Real-life Nightmare, and a Possible Vision
- Down the Garden Path
- Philip Harmon Steals $30 Million: "Quakers Make Good
Victims"
- Phil Harmon's Victims Speak
- Quaker $$$ Scandal Update: Will An Ex-Superintendent be
Indicted?
- John Wesley's Folly
- Trial Updates: Priscilla Deters in Wichita
Federal Court
- February 24, 1998: Deters Trial Opens in Wichita
- February 25, 1998: Cherokee Quaker Church Money Used for
"Ponzi" Fraud Scheme--Kansas Investigator
- February 26, 1998: Ex-Quaker Superintendent In Kansas Fraud
Trial
- February 27, 1998: Wegner, Other Nazarene Churchmen Detail
Frauds
- March 2, 1998: First Defense Witnesses Roughed Up by
Prosecutors in Productions Plus Trial
- March 3, 1998: Witness Says Deters Money a
"Covenant," not an "Investment"
- March 4, 1998: Disputes Flare as Defense Completes Case
- March 5, 1998: Deters Trial--"Just a scam" or
"Good faith"
- March 6, 1998: Deters Convicted
- March 13, 1998: Tough Deters Bail Conditions Set; Possible
Future Indictments Seen
- May 4, 1998: Phil Harmon Sentenced to Serve Eight Years, Pay
$16 Million; Prosecutors Promise More Indictments
- May 22, 1998: Quaker Church Fraud Sentencing Update
- September 3, 1998: Another Plea in Harmon Case; More
Charges to Come, Prosecutors Say
Rogues and Heroes -- Photos from the Quaker Fraud Scandals
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