And let's not forget the big money grab of all the congregations that have a bank account in the US. They certainly wouldn't have been so bold as to ask for any cash on hand beyond 3 months of expenses and ordered it pledged to the WT.
And don't forget the pledges asked/order by the WT corporation of its members in the recent past to get more funds.These things IMO spells serious trouble for WT corporation.
Not to mention lawsuits all over the world that they are facing, along with bad publicity from these and a vast army of former members doing what they can to make it hard for the WT corporation because of their evil treatment of them.
I really think they reached the point of no return some time during the mid nineties.
Things will continue to escalate till WT's CEOs hide as much of the assets as they can for a golden parachute before they go belly up. Which I'm hoping a little justice metered out to PTL main man Jim Baker will happen to these frauds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker
Fraud conviction and incarceration[edit]
Following a 16-month Federal grand jury probe, Bakker was indicted in 1988 on eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.[8][15] In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Daniel Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $500,000 fine.[5]:52[16] He served time in the Federal Medical Center, Rochester, in Rochester, Minnesota, sharing a cell with activist Lyndon LaRouche and skydiver Roger Nelson.[17]
In February 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, but voided Bakker's 45-year sentence, as well as the $500,000 fine, and ordered that a new sentencing hearing be held. The court held that Potter's statement at sentencing that Bakker's actions resulted in "those of us who do have a religion" being lampooned as "saps from money-grubbing preachers or priests" was evidence that he had injected his own religious beliefs into considering Bakker's sentence.[18]
On November 16, 1992, a sentence reduction hearing was held. Bakker's sentence was reduced to eight years.[5]:104 In August 1993, Bakker was transferred to a minimum security federal prison in Jesup, Georgia, and then he was granted parole in July 1994, after serving almost five years of his sentence.[5]:116, 130 Bakker's son, Jay, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign to the parole board on his father's behalf, urging leniency.[5]:106–115 He was released from Federal Bureau of Prisons custody on December 1, 1994.[19]
On July 23, 1996, a North Carolina jury threw out a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 160,000 one-time supporters who contributed as much as $7,000 each to Bakker's coffers in the 1980s.
The Charlotte Observer reported that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) still holds Bakker and Roe Messner, Tammy Faye's husband from 1993 until her death in 2007, liable for personal income taxes owed from the 1980s when they were building the PTL empire, taxes assessed after the IRS revoked the PTL ministry's nonprofit status. Tammy Faye Messner's new husband said that the original tax amount was about $500,000, with penalties and interest accounting for the rest. Notices stating the IRS liens list still identify "James O. and Tamara F. Bakker" as owing $6,000,000, liens on which Jim Bakker still pays.