An unconfirmed rumor has been circulating among political operatives that senior Democrat party officials are actively conspiring to thwart Council President Darius Pridgen’s ambitions on the Mayor’s office. Operatives working at the behest of chairman Jeremy Zellner have been pushing law enforcement officials to investigate political activities of True Bethel Baptist Church, Pridgen’s tax exempt ministry.
Entities that receive a 501(c)3 tax exempt status are prohibited from engaging in political activities or commingling funds for political purposes. If an entity engages in outright political activity, the entity’s tax exempt status could be revoked. Criminal charges are possible if non-profit money was being regularly and intentionally used to support political activities, though those allegations have not been formally made.
The rumor suggests that an operative has been recording the past two Sunday services at True Bethel’s East Ferry location and will be doing so in the future in response to complaints from congregants that the pastor has used his pulpit to rile congregants for self serving political purposes. It is unclear whether the operative who is recording the services is a political staffer or a law enforcement official. The source could not elaborate.
you know there is so much fraud in our cities and Gov. is no stranger neither is the Business sector or the courts :
we need someone who has the knowldge and the brains to sift betweenn the lies and distortion of the facts ;
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Dr. Pope is a tenured associate professor of accounting at DePaul University. She is also founder and Chief Content Officer for Helios Digital Learning. She received her doctorate in accounting from Virginia Tech and she is a licensed certified public accountant (CPA) and a chartered global management accountant (CGMA). She has served on the faculties of DePaul University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Wake Forest University Business School and Wake Forest University Law School. Her primary research interest focus on how employees rationalize fraudulent decision-making and steps organization can take to mitigate the risk of internal employee fraud.Her academic research has been published in the Behavioral Research in Accounting, Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, CPA Journal and WebCPA. She is co-author of The A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics: Using Psychology to Prevent, Detect and Deter Fraud published by John Wiley & Sons. Additionally, she writes for Forbes.com, Areas of Expertise-White-collar crime, forensic Accounting, Managerial accounting, Corporate Governance, Business Ethics;
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