Elizabeth Phillips
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They're blacked out because they're on location somewhere.
They can't show where they are.
But I can see the IRS agent, and he's fired up.
Like, he sees this for what it is.
And I go through a presentation.
I have it right here.
This is what I presented to law enforcement.
I had, like, two all-nighters to pull this together, because I was not in town.
It's... I had... My right-hand woman was on maternity leave, and her deputy was helping me scramble to put something together.
We organized all this information we'd been digging up for years at this point, like, three years' worth of tips, and just pulling numbers where we could, claims Kanika had made, and...
So I went through this deck and I get through the page about their money and private inurement and the IRS agent goes, well, where'd you get these numbers?
And I was like, oh, we just pulled this from their 990 forms.
So 990 forms are what you send to the IRS if you're a nonprofit.
You don't have to do 990 forms if you're a church.
So their transparency has gotten less and less since 2015 when they became a church.
But we were able to dig up what we could through the 990s, and we were able to trace $380 million in gross revenue to this camp in southwest Missouri.
Wow.
And then we calculated that, net that out, 25% was leaving the country and going to failed states like Haiti.
Yeah.
Yeah.