{"id":4104,"date":"2007-11-06T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2017-11-24T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:17:54","slug":"gravy-train-turf-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/gravy-train-turf-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravy Train Turf Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Congressman sees fit to inject his office into oversight of televangelism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the financial dealings of six TV evangelists, including Joyce Meyer, the popular preacher who has built a $124-million-a-year empire headquartered in Fenton.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Meyer to provide his staff with documents detailing the finances of the Joyce Meyer Ministries, including the religious group&#8217;s compensation to Meyer, her husband and other family members, as well as an accounting of their housing allowances, gifts and credit card statements for the last several years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Congress shall make no law<\/i> doesn&#8217;t say a thing about fishing expeditions into religious organizations, does it?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Update:<\/b><\/font> James Joyner links to another article that describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/senate_probing_top_televangelists_for_tax_violations\/\" target=\"_new\">other targets<\/a> of the investigation and applies the adjective <i>mundane<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Congressman sees fit to inject his office into oversight of televangelism: The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the financial dealings of six TV evangelists, including Joyce Meyer, the popular preacher who has built a $124-million-a-year empire headquartered in Fenton. On Monday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17759,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}