The Washington Post website reports today (July 31, 2012) that Robert Freeman -- a Southern Maryland pastor and longtime televangelist -- drove fancy cars and lived in a $1.75 million home in Indian Head on the Potomic River that has five fireplaces, a jet-ski lift, and two four-car garages.
To finance that lifestyle, federal prosecutors said, Freeman turned to his followers to purchase the vehicles and waterfront property. Many, it turned out, could not afford it.
Yesterday (July 30), Freeman, 56 -- who headed Save the Seed ministry in Waldorf, Maryland -- was sentenced to 27 months in prison in a related bankruptcy case. Prosecutors said he hid church assets to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts.
"Freeman lived a life of fraud and deception, using millions of dollars from church members, and fraudulently obtained credit to pay for luxury cars and a mansion, while falsely representing in court that he was indigent," Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said.
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