Mary Cosby and her husband Robert Sr. are reportedly suing the executives working their church’s enterprise. Within the swimsuit, Mary is known as as Religion Temple Pentecostal’s evangelist, first girl, and vp, and Robert is known as because the church’s president and bishop.
On The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis, castmates have typically mentioned how Robert was as soon as Mary’s step-grandfather earlier than her grandmother handed away. The grandmother allegedly was rich and ran the church.
Based on The Salt Lake Tribune, Mary and Robert are suing two executives who’re working her church’s for-profit enterprise.
She’s accusing the 2 leaders of embezzling hundreds of thousands for years from the corporate, which is totally owned by Mary’s church.
Mary and Robert are looking for a complete of about $6.3 million in damages from the enterprise agency, United Safety Monetary (USF), in addition to officers Shawn Turner (secretary of USF) and Annie L. Johnson (president of USF).
Per a grievance filed final Wednesday, Religion Temple and the Cosbys are accusing Johnson and Turner of utilizing the church funds for private functions, forging Robert’s signature, and intimidating staff.
The outlet was unable to contact Johnson and Turner’s reps on the time.
They accused Johnson of taking in her identify the title of a radio station owned by the church, and in 2017, she started to cancel the channel’s FCC license, demolish its transmission tower, and dismantle the channel itself.
Their grievance claimed Johnson transferred the radio station’s property in 2020 to her son, and a 3rd celebration bought it from him and the proceeds went again to his mother. The property on the time was allegedly price over $4.3 million.
Additionally they accused Johnson of “commingling” cash and utilizing the church’s account to fund the USF mortgage for an Indiana property, which the husband of Johnson bought to a cousin. The $173,000 mortgage was allegedly by no means repaid to the church, and the payoff with curiosity totaled $421,912.40.
The swimsuit claimed Johnson abused the church’s reps and USF staff “with intimidation, threats, verbal abuse, racial degradation, and bodily abuse,” and she or he allegedly “repeatedly” informed the USF staff to money firm checks earlier than giving the cash to her, although she allegedly asserted that it will go to Religion Temple. She purportedly used the cash for private functions “as a type of cash laundering,” and a complete of $350,000 was taken on this method.
Based on one accusation, an audit discovered that the USF president made funds from 2006 to 2018 from Mary and Robert’s private checking account, managed by Johnson on the time, regarding a $119,000 mortgage that Robert signed to buy an Ensign Peak property. It was believed that the mortgage was paid off in 2006 by way of refinancing.
The grievance claimed that an organization Turner owned despatched the ultimate examine for paying off the mortgage to a USF account, which was “used for private achieve.”
The swimsuit alleged that $126,611.10 was paid off – after Mary and Robert thought the mortgage was already paid.
Their lawsuit additionally claimed {that a} second mortgage for the property was made for $99,217 in 2008 after the USF president cast Robert’s signature, and she or he threatened a notary into notarizing this false signature. The grievance stated that Johnson used Mary and Robert’s private funds to pay $76,448.40 on this mortgage, however Johnson and Turner later asserted that “there has not been a single fee made to this Mtg.”
Based on the grievance, Turner “offered a payoff quantity of $137,475.35 with no clarification of how this was decided,” and Mary and Robert didn’t discover out about this second mortgage till December of final yr.
They accused Johnson of funneling congregants’ “sacred tithes and choices” to pay private bills, together with an Amex invoice, and a ledger was allegedly discovered that confirmed {that a} complete of $90,670.32 in funds, in Johnson’s handwriting, have been made to her.
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