Gerald Payne
speaker
102 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
Gerald Payne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm not even sure why, but the shutdown actually has nothing to do with Gerald.
Here's the problem with that, though.
Coincidentally, Gerald has over $20 million of church money sitting in a checking account with that specific bank.
So suddenly, all of that money gets frozen and Gerald can't access any of it.
Which means he can't keep his Ponzi scheme going because his payouts start slowing down.
So now, in order to keep the scheme going, he needs to find more gullible people to invest more of their money.
And that is when Gerald goes to his congregation
And he starts telling them that the U.S.
government is specifically targeting him and that to protect the church, he wants to buy an island near the Bahamas.
And there, I guess they would all move and he would basically start his own country and set up a theocracy.
stocked the island with all sorts of weapons and explosives to defend it from anyone who tries to interfere, and that for the low, low price of $10,000, they would get a passport, a driver's license, and one square foot of land on the island.
That doesn't seem like that much land.
And not surprisingly, some of his followers hear this idea and they buy right into it.
But it simply isn't enough.
And eventually, Gerald has no more money left to pay anyone from his previous Ponzi scheme.
And so, of course, a lot of his congregation, when they don't get paid, they get pissed off and they're demanding their money back.
And around 1999, U.S.
Marshals get involved and they end up raiding the church.
And so, bam, Gerald gets arrested.
Here's his mugshot.
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