Founder of World's Largest Church Indicted for Alleged Stock Scheme

South Korea: “Yoido Full Gospel Church’s David Yonggi Cho is accused of $9 million stock loss and $5.5 billion in tax evasion.”

Discussion

The scale of this thing blows my mind. “Church founder” and “5.5 billion” just don’t go in the same sentence.

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Apparently, that’s 5.5 billion won, not dollars (according to an articled linked to by CT). That’s still a lot of money. Shoddy work in the CT piece, though.

Yeah, that makes a huge difference. Apparently, 5,500,000,000 won = something like 5,067,259.87 dollars.

Not quite so mind-melting, though it’s a bit hard to put “church founder” and “$5 million” in the same sentence, too.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

Not to defend the guy, but if you have a million members and they each give five bucks on Pastor Appreciation Sunday…

…weddings and funerals!

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.