Two church leaders are faced with accusations linked to a forced conspiracy of work and money laundering. The indictment of ten David Taylor And Michelle Brannon The accused of victimizing people in at least four states, including Michigan, Texas, Missouri and Florida.
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More details on the indictment and arrests
A great federal jury of the Oriental District of Michigan rendered the indictment against church leaders on Wednesday, August 27. Taylor was to appear in North Carolina, while Brannon will be in Florida – the places where each of them was arrested.
Deputy Prosecutor General Harmeet K. Dhillon apparently compared Taylor and Brannon’s actions to the “trafficking in human beings”, affirming that it is an absolute priority for the Doj to fight against such a crime.
According to a press release from the DoJ, David Taylor and Michelle Brannon led the World Church of the Kingdom of God (Koggc). Taylor was “the apostle” of the church, while Brannon was the executive director. At the time of arrest, the KOGGC had several call centers through Florida, Texas and Missouri, the first being Michigan.
Church leaders would have used people as “personal servants”
Prosecutors claim that church leaders employed people in the call center as “armor” in Taylor. In reality, the alleged employees were “The personal servants who responded to Taylor’s requests 24 hours a day”.
In addition, the accusation act alleys that David Taylor and Michelle Brannon controlled all aspects of the daily life of their victims, to sleep in the center or in a “house of the ministry”. “… Taylor and Brannon did not allow them to leave without authorization. Taylor demanded that his armor carriers carry women of ministry houses, airports and other places on the site of Taylor.
These “armor carriers” also assured that the women they took to see Taylor take emergency contraceptives from Plan B. They also worked for long hours without salary in the center and served David Taylor, who established inaccessible “Daily, weekly, monthly and annual monetary donation objectives for victims …” Taylor also asked the victims to listen to without questioning it.
“If the victims have disobeyed an order or fail to achieve its monetary objectives, Taylor and Brannon have punished victims of public humiliation, additional work, food and shelter, psychological violence, forced repentance, deprivation of sleep, physical assault and threats of divine judgment in the form of disease, accidents and damnation and damnation and damnation and damnation and Damnification and the state indicated.
The church has received millions of dollars of donations
According to the indictment, church leaders have collected millions of dollars each year in their call center program. Rather than using money for community purposes, Taylor and Brannon used it to buy luxury vehicles and properties and sports entertainment such as boats, jet ski and mountain biking. Since 2014, Taylor has collected $ 50 million, by prosecutors.
Their accusations consist in consulting forced work, the conspiracy in order to commit money laundering and forced work. If they are found guilty of the three accusations, church leaders risk up to 20 years in prison and multiple fines from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000.
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