NATION : U.S. May Seize Bakker Pennies
Former millionaire preacher Jim Bakker hasn’t paid a dime of the $500,000 in fines assessed last year and officials said today they may attach the 11 cents an hour he now earns cleaning prison toilets.
U.S. Atty. Tom Ashcraft, releasing a list of the Top 10 criminal debtors in the western district of North Carolina, said the government will pursue every means possible to make Bakker pay up.
Bakker, 50, is serving a 45-year prison sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., for his conviction on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy stemming from the way he raised and spent money at PTL.
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