The Nation - News from Sept. 27, 1989
A 74-year-old woman who bought 32 of the $1,000 lifetime partnerships at PTL said at Jim Bakker’s fraud trial in Charlotte, N.C., that she would gladly give the money to the ministry again. “I was given the greatest thrill I ever had by giving that money,” Marjorie Grey of Richlands said after testifying. Grey said that she also made a $12,000 down payment on a condominium that was never built at PTL’s Heritage USA retreat and theme park. Each partnership generally entitled a person to three nights and four days lodging at Heritage USA. Prosecutors contend the partnerships greatly outnumbered the rooms available.
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