after he was convicted of fraudulently filing for $2.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans.
“Due to the fact that this is an ongoing investigation, the Secret Service cannot provide any additional information related to this case at this time.” “We’re interested to hear the full story. It’s just totally out of character for a man of God, supposedly.”“This guy needs to be in jail,” said the neighbor, who spoke about what he had read in the news about the case. He spoke on the condition of anonymity to maintain his privacy.
Edwards went on to marry Mary Jane, a Filipino immigrant. The couple moved to Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, in the late 1980s after the birth of their two children. The family moved back to Canada about 10 years ago, and Evan Edwards continued to preach, his cousin said.In October 2018, Edwards bought a three-bedroom home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, for $332,500. The family flew from Edmonton to Orlando on June 29, 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Then the coronavirus hit and crippled the U.S. economy. In April 2020, Josh Edwards applied for a $6 million Paycheck Protection Program loan to cover payroll, rent and utilities for his family’s ministry, according to a federal complaint.First Home Bank notified Josh Edwards that ASLAN International was eligible to receive more money than he had asked for: a total of $8.4 million.
Tom Zernick, the president of First Home Bank, said in a statement that the documentation submitted by ASLAN “met the requirements of the PPP at that time.” And while the ministry’s pandemic loan application said it had a monthly payroll of $2.7 million, it had reported its monthly income as just $5,500 in charity filings to the Canadian government, according to a review of the documents.
All four members of the family were taken into custody. They were charged with filing fraudulent immigration documents at the Canadian border. “This sequence of events is incredibly rare and unusual,” said Little, the former federal prosecutor.
Russbarr Wow, that's about what Tom Brady got! Why haven't they been charged?
Newgy13 Just what we need more religious crimers
noafasina He probably claimed every member of the Church as an employee and that they couldn’t perform their canvassing due to Covid.
Why weren’t there charges state them. Church power ?
White privileged running wild.
Memers08 Of course.
Well it's just an example of more privileged, religious white Amerikkka!
douglass_janie $8 million. Why would they need $8 million dollars?
And religion wants to be in politics
This is why I hate organized religion. You don’t know how corrupt your clergy is. I hate that I’ve lost faith in the goodness of spiritual leaders
Pastor Christian White Probably Republican Total Hypocrite
Now do all the people collecting money from Big Pharma for pushing the vaccine. Media NBC
Tax the church
rolandsmartin Sounds about white
JoaquinCastrotx This is a huge example of disrespecting the American taxpayers who are you fellow and future citizens. Accountability for this abuse is required.
It's OK to defraud the government if you say you're a Christian, especially in Florida.
Justice.. wth.. really!! needs to be in JAIL..
Why no chin?
No pastor, a family of fraud and swindlers.
TaxTheChurch
Aggressive Brain Cancers, Heart Inflammation: Doctors All Over the World Are Seeing Strange Things in the Young 'I have seen more cancer in my young patients ever since the shots rolled out than I have ever seen in my entire career.'
This smug family pic says it all. Like aaaaand?! Whutcha gonna do about it?
NBC News, Pastor Edwards and Family stole $8million in Covid relief funds. So what, they need it to buy your way in. Have never know an honest non greedy Pastor, Minister etc. for years. Whores are whores.
Christianity is a byword for greed.
You have in America one simple remedy for this injustice how you vote in the midterms and 2024 remember when the GOP play that type of game you Dem’s can also play a game that is called packing the courts so it’s up to you how you vote
You had me at 'Florida'... 🙄
God bless him
Clearly this is crooked lying ministry after money. Some good people are killed with AR15. But very sadly lying fake pastor ran away with $8 million and still living like a king with a fancy house with gym and a fancy car
Probably a SCOTUS ruling...
I want to know who stole his chin
Seems like living in Florida grants you immunity SMH
Ofcourse the government would go after a Christian Pastor when there’s real criminals out there Christian are a, target. if you need proof here it is
Religions are scams taking money for nothing and paying no taxes.
The daughter got
Seriously, TheJusticeDept?
Good Ole republican family values
The 'fake' Christians, the evangelicals, that whole sorry lot of snake oil salesmen.
goldrrhae The time is now.
EThompsonWV Grifters grifters grifters! They’re all the bloody same😡 it’s all about money not god! If they believe in god? They should rid themselves of worldly possessions & give away they’re wealth to help the poor, but hey that’s just a thought!? 🤑😡🤑
What 👏🏽 are 👏🏽 they 👏🏽 waiting 👏🏽 for
TAX THE CHURCHES
I going to start my own church on go fund me.
It is God's will.
LET ME GUESS THEY GET TO KEEP THE MONEY AND WILL NOT FACE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY RIGHT? BECAUSE IF YOU ARE A MAGA YOU GET A FREE PASS TO BREAK THE LAW! ASK DO NOTHING MERRICKGARLAND!
IRS_CI Boop
Miss_Salome_723 Religion 🙄
MrTAchilles Hmmm...decisions decisions. ReligionPoisonsEverything
Awful ..if that was most of us we would be in jail.
donwinslow Wolves in sheep clothing
noxiloveschichi Sounds about white and godly
Evangelical Republicans
God forbid 🙃
jmh6225 whaddya wanna bet this ministry is anti-abortion?
nevermore_007 DOJCrimDiv TaxTheChurches
RobinEdgar left media loves to go after christian ministers and christians generally
Lock him up and sort it out later
Gotta love those Christian's, always thinking of themselves.
JoshMankiewicz Those sneaky christians. They do know how to screw the system. 👹
QACremodel Tired of these garbage people.
TampaSportsGirl Disgusting.
Everyone is looking for a break - feeding these stories empowers raping people of money. It is the end times- Which God do we serve? A Christ-follower knows they'd be punished. A Jesus&/or Satan-follower might be a bit greedy...There are a number of Christs & Jesus' in the KJV
mich10005 No consequences. None.
As PT Barnum said, there’s a Sucker born in every minute!
Probably friends of Trump
He didn't steal from rich people, so the government doesn't care.
Totally on brand for the Death Cult grifters
Rich people are bad people!
Sounds about Christian
Christian should be in quotes for all these ppl.
MarlaTauscher Somebody convince me that's not a Dollar Tree version of Elon Musk.
That is totally sins galore in religion starting with thou shalt not lie plus others I'm sure taking money not yours is thou shalt not steal..so why has this pastor or who made the claim not been charged?
We really need to get better at this whole “separation of church and state” thing. They don’t pay taxes. Why are they getting tax payer money? Why is this so difficult for people to figure out and wrap their heads around?
Sounds like jail to me
if they started arresting people for scamming government money through fraudulent ppp loan applications they would have to arrest most ceos, political consultants, influencers, small businesses owners, etc
What makes them so special
pistolstrikesbk FBI TheJusticeDept wth? Arrest someone
God is good I guess …….
Christian thieves and scammers have been a thing for quite a while now. It's all about power and the Golden idol now
Some religions are crime-exempt.
FightingForDem7 Why did a religious organization get covid relief at all? They don’t pay taxes.
donwinslow TheJusticeDept ……
Grifter knows where the easy marks are.
praise jesus
fangpusskins Tax the churches..
Good Christian Republicans lol
They will now.
Meanwhile we're the only country without free healthcare, homeless problem, racial inequality, hungry ppl, etc. 8 million for a pastor & his family🤔I'm sure they needed it though😡not.
Why haven’t they been charged? Money returned?
The real crime is the negligent administration of Covid funds - reckless distribution of unnecessary relief funds.
The word ‘pastor’ is usually a flag.
The rich are held to a different standard. That happens when democracy fades!
Tax the churches and the greedy billionaires!
Why aren’t they charged. That’s disgusting And they call themselves Christians. Thieves is what they are and that’s fraud. When many small businesses didn’t get that money. Shame.
Double Standard Hypocrisy.
This is one of those, 'they aren't perfect, just forgiven' cases again. Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.Again.
donwinslow Churches don’t pay taxes. Why did they get covid relief funds of over $8 million!
American Christianity in a nutshell
It seems that nowadays people get away with more. Laws are meant to deter crime. We have to enforce them.
donwinslow Disgusting! We’ll they’ll say “Jesus is still in the blessings business!”
The Lord giveth, and the Lord keeps giving in this hapless state of affairs…
Thanks Mnuchin!
donwinslow Religion is poison. Nothing but control of the uneducated and fearful exercised through voodoo and fairy tales.
God will not like this.
Disgusting
Tucsonbelle Grifting is the pastoral way.
LikaFrog TaxtheChurches
Damn I should start stealing money if there are absolutely no consequences
Shocking.
Thou Shall Not Steal , too late for them obviously ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!
Crooks and abused the system. Not Gods way of life. Sad people 👎
“He told people on the block he believed that divine intervention helped the family navigate their legal issues. According to one neighbor, he put it this way: “God saved us.” Is “god” his code word for desantis?
I want them charged now 🧡 FBI
According to SCROTUS, religion can screw you however it chooses since it is doing God's work.
donwinslow In Jesus name we pray. 🙏
They didn’t “steal,” they “borrowed” for Jesus. Apparently, he needs the money. Inflation is a bitch in heaven.
MAGA evangelicals do the worst things, don’t they?
They’ll scream religious freedom, that always works.
How Christian of them. Another religious con artist. 🤦♂️
Charles36724100 Grifters for Jesus
486 is the name of a chip that runs Bill Gates's Windows operating system. Coincidence?
Fraud in church. Never heard of that before. 🙄
donwinslow And why haven’t they?
donwinslow All in an AntiChristologist days work.
So called Christians see to be really self centered, pretentious, fakes!
Also tax exampt
Right wing scam artists seem to be above all laws
Very few of the grifters who stole millions in Covid relief have been charged. I suspect the fact that the feds got all the money back without any further hassle meant these folks dropped off their radar.
donwinslow This crap is so frustrating. I’ve talked to 3 small businesses in the last week that legitimately were able to retain employees during the pandemic thanks to these programs. But ass faces like this pastor do this shit and it makes it toxic to offer these programs in the future.
donwinslow Shocked
God blessed them
I guess “Thou shall not steal” doesn’t mean them.
Damn, imagine if the average person stole 8mil. They would be behind bars for years. This is what civil asset forfeiture should go after.
donwinslow Why wasn’t this guy in Pandemic, Inc.?
donwinslow 😡😡😡
Why are so many religious people Grifters
On brand for a Christian.