House of Prayer church leaders indicted for alleged $22M fraud scheme targeting military vets
Federal prosecutors accused the founder and various leaders of Georgia -based Christian churches of carried out a 22 million dollar fraud plan for deconsely targeting US military members and veterans of Georgia -based ministry of Georgia.
Following the indictment, the FBI raided a raid in Augusta, Georgia, and arrested its leaders after allegations that the church was operating as a cult and hunting to military communities throughout the country.
FBI Atlanta Public Relations Specialist Jenna Sellitto confirmed that FOX News had raided Digital in a house in Georgia, Columbia, and made authorized arrests on the church investigation.
Sellitto said that those who were detained could not immediately release their identity.
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The accusations raided at least three churches associated with Christian churches in Georgia and Texas after the FBI in June 2022, and only kilometers from Fort Gordon, Fort Stewart and Fort Hood.
Following the 2022 raid, the Ministry of Justice (DOJ) defrauded the church and hundreds of military members of the Bible seminar more than $ 22 million.
The indictment opened in the Southern Region of Georgia on Thursday, Church Founder Rony Denis and Church leaders Anthony Oloans, 51, Dennis Nostrand, 55, Gerard Robertson, 57, David Reip, 52, Marcus Labat, 42 and Omar Fruse, including bank Frails, including Bank Frus. blames. Jobs (VA) educational benefits and wrong tax refunds.
According to the indictment, his true identity is unknown, but Denis, who won US citizenship in 2002, is accused of using strict control over the US citizenships in 2002.
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It was claimed that the leaders helped manipulation by protecting the personal information of the members, checking their financial status and arranging divorce and property transfers.
Prosecutors dating back to 2004 claim that the church uses the names of church members to obtain mortgages under false claims and then transfer properties to assets under control.
According to the indictment, church leaders are claimed to have collected more than 5.2 million dollars from 2018 to 2020.
Prosecutors also accuse the students of misleading VA by incorrectly confirming their students for GI invoice advantages through Hopcc’s Bible seminars.
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According to the indictment, funds for the education of veterans were directed to church leaders and affiliated organizations.
In addition to other crimes, court documents were claimed to have helped Denis in 2018, 2019 and 2020, which resulted in allegedly hundreds of thousands of fraudulent repayment every year.
Within the scope of the Rapid Trial Law, in the complex and exclusion movement of the case, prosecutors claim that they reviewed more than 175 bank accounts, conducted dozens of witness interviews, carried out five search orders in four states and seized more than 100 electronic devices and 80 boxes of documents.
“The defendants are accused of confidence, faith and even the service of military members of our country to enrich themselves.” He said. “This indictment clearly reveals that using the pressure, manipulation and fraud under the guise of religion cannot protect the injustice from accountability.”
According to the court documents, more than 200 large jury courts were published in the alleged fraud plans, which covers about twenty years and containing 150 to 200 properties.
Denis is represented by lawyer Steven Sadow, the chief lawyer of President Donald Trump during the Georgian election intervention case. Sadow could not be reached immediately to comment.
The Ministry of Internal Security and Migration and Customs Conservation did not respond immediately to Fox News Digital’s request for additional information about Denis’s citizenship status and identity.
