Thursday, April 3, 2008

Randy White Under Fire

A Florida megachurch founded by Randy and Paula White ordered church staffers to make political contributions to a Republican candidate for governor, according to an NBC News Investigative Unit. Evidence turned up during a month-long investigation that the church's pastor lied in a deposition about a business transaction in a deposition made under oath and misrepresented his academic credentials. NBC says Randy White's bio on the church website claimed he had earned a Bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies and a Master's Degree in Divinity from Lee College (now Lee University). But the school says he did not graduate and only attended for a short period of time. The information has since been removed from the church website. Since then, White has admitted under oath that he did not hold a degree from Lee but he claimed he had an honorary degree from Virginia State University. That school also disputes the claim. Without Walls International is already being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee along with six other ministries. Randy and Paula White refused talk on camera about the information that turned up.

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