PTL’s Largest Creditor Plans Court Fight
Plans to reorganize the PTL ministry will be challenged in bankruptcy court by its largest creditor, who said Friday that only Jim Bakker “can make this ministry work.”
Roe Messner, a Wichita, Kan., building contractor who claims he is owed $14 million by PTL, met in secret with Bakker on Thursday night for more than two hours at the $1.3-million PTL-owned parsonage in Tega Cay where Bakker and his wife are staying, Cable News Network reported.
Messner told CNN that he and other creditors are planning their own reorganization plan to present in bankruptcy court, where PTL’s management under the Rev. Jerry Falwell has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
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