Pat Robertson's unethical businesses and the diamond mines

[Maraya1969]

Apparently Pat Robertson is a shrewed business man. He used money from the 700 club to buy the Family Channel and when it began to make profits and became exempt from non-profit status he sold the business to himself and his son - for very little money. In 1992 he made the company public which increased his wealth to about 90 million dollars. Then he sells the Family channel to non other than a man he vilifies in public - Rupert Murdoch.

Then he starts a multi-level marketing company telling people they can make between $10,000- $15,0000/month. He changes the product from coupon books to vitamins in mid air and would not refund the money people paid for the coupon books. It was also found out that the Christian Broadcast Network "loaned" the money for the start up of this company.

His next venture was the DIAMOND business which he was in cahoots with then Zaire, (now The Congo) brutal and filthy rich Dictator Mobuto Sese Seko. He used CBN funds to open this business also and paid the employees the same poverty level wages that the Mobuto did in his mining operations. It also turns out that he used his "Operation Blessing" money to send equipment to his diamond mines.

Read: Rob Boston's book - "The Most Dangerous Man in America - Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition,"


http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/business.html



Pat Robertson's Business Practiceshttp://www.deism.com/patspage.htm

Pat Robertson is a wealthy man. An extremely wealthy man-some estimates put his net worth at 140 million. He lives on the top of a Virginia mountain, in a huge mansion with a private airstrip. He owns the Ice Capades, a small hotel, diamond mines, and until recently, International Family Entertainment, parent company of the Family Channel.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Family values hard at work.... how spiffy. eom.

[acmejack]

2. The hypocrisy is overwhelming

He has that big campus in Va. Beach too. But he seemed so nice when he hosted the 700 club on tv!

[atreides1]

3. "...he seemed so nice..."

Even Lucifer was known as the "Morning Star" or even "bringer of the dawn".

In other words you don't know what's inside of a book unless you read it.