DD Support Board and Research Team

[shajandr]

The very best televangelist fraudster was Dr. Gene Scott - a Stanford Ph.D. - who operated out of SF and then LA. Had his own network - owned Channel 38 in San Francisco and another UHF station in LA - had a worldwide shortwave service 24/7 out of a transmitter site in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and Anguilla in the Caribbean. The IRS tried to nail him for taxes, but he set everything up offshore in Anguilla and other jurisdictions using trusts and shells.

At 73 he married a Canadian porn star in her 20s, then died at 75 from prostate cancer because he wouldn't consent to surgery that would have left him impotent. His favorite quote was "Hugh Hefner ain't got nothing on me" and he would trot out his "pony girls" onscreen while he puffed a cigar and yelled at his viewers "get on them damn phones!" or he would not preach.

He was a riot. His pornstar wife is now the replacement preacher and runs the show on satellite/cable TV under the name Pastor Melissa Scott. She has to do this in order to access the trusts. Gene set it up so whomever inherited his empire would be forced to continue the show and keep showing his tapes and selling his books. Forever. So she has to pretend to be a preacher to get her paycheck.

Old Gene - quite the fellow. Born in rural northern California - Oroville area - and wound up getting a religious scholarship to Stanford then figured out how to rape the idiot public and pay zero taxes.