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A Friendly Letter
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Excerpts from
Fleecing the Faithful:
How Religious Con Artists Stole $35 Million
from Quakers, Nazarenes
and other Churches,
and How They'll Steal from YOU if You Let Them
(To read the full text of the report, click here.)
Check this page for updates, the latest post will appear at the bottom of the bulleted
list.
- 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
New! Analysis & Commentary
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