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Misplaced faith is as painful as lost money for Indiana church-fraud victims.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2004
By Richard D. Walton, The Indianapolis Star Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 10--Under fire in Vietnam, Sam Leslie said he begged God: Just let me get out alive. Upon returning home, the former Marine infantryman looked for a way to repay the Lord.
In 1997, he found it: Leslie invested $100,000 in an affiliate of the Anderson-based Church of God. Proceeds from the investments, he was told, would go toward loans to build churches.
"I felt like I was doing the right thing in my heart and soul," the retired Anderson foundry worker said in a court affidavit. "I never dreamed it would end like this."
It ended with the 60-year-old losing roughly $78,000 in what a U.S. District Court jury on July 15 found to be a fraud that...
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