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March 10, 2006
Is this a joke?
Apparently, no.
A new Web site, scrushy-ministries.com, details Scrushy's new role as a pastor, televangelist and head of Kingdom Builders International, an organization seeking to pool the resources of nondenominational Christian churches.Scrushy and wife Leslie, the daughter of a Methodist minister, were recently ordained pastors and ministers of Grace and Purpose Church, according to the site. That church service is televised on the WOTM cable channel owned by Scrushy's son-in-law, Michael Plaia.
(Full disclosure: I went to high school with Mike Plaia.)
This is in addition to their morning half hour show, which is still on the air. He's sort of a discount Pat Robertson without (yet) claiming the magic powers. And there's the "documentary" which "tells the story of the role their religion played in the former HealthSouth Corp. CEO's acquittal of fraud and conspiracy charges." It would be embarrassing if he got convicted of the Montgomery charges.
Never mind that, he's going to the Bahamas! Seriously, he got permission to attend a "pastors' leadership meeting" in Nassau. And he's building churches in Africa, because there aren't any churches that need building here I guess. Except for his planned Bible college in McCalla. (Full disclosure: my family is from McCalla and this pisses me off.)
Posted by Mac Thomason at March 10, 2006 10:53 AM
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And he and Leslie promise not to keep a penny of the money they raise through their "ministry", and we should all believe that because, well, just because, I guess.
Posted by: Kathy at March 10, 2006 11:38 AM
Oh but Mac, you missed the best nugget of all. We had this somewhere on the site, but here's more details:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-03-08-scrushy-usat_x.htm
Where in McCalla is his bible college going? Do we know yet?
Love the new title of the page.
Posted by: Kenny at March 10, 2006 12:50 PM
And this too-good-to-be-true wire copy quote of Scrushy's
http://www.newsone.ca/piercelandherald/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=154645
Posted by: Kenny at March 10, 2006 12:51 PM
Ouch. Is he that oblivious or that hypocritical?
I am guessing it would be near McAdory off of 459, but that's just a guess.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at March 10, 2006 02:01 PM
Nahh, that land is going to a new strip mall movie theater. Though all of the growth in the community has been on the Eastern Valley side. We do have the three churches and the industrial stuff across the way on the Rock Mountain side.
I hadn't heard of his Bible College wishes and Caviar dreams. Wonder how pie-in-the-sky it is.
Posted by: Kenny at March 10, 2006 03:03 PM
God in happy horsehit heaven, I love this state!
Posted by: mreyn at March 10, 2006 04:31 PM
Correction: God in happy horseshit heaven, I love this state!
Posted by: mreyn at March 10, 2006 04:35 PM
"We do have the three churches and the industrial stuff across the way on the Rock Mountain side."
Do you mean the Rock Mtn exit off of I-59?
Where do you think the strip mall + movie theater will go? Across Eastern Valley Rd. from the warehouse, where those run-down looking homes are now?
Posted by: Susan at March 10, 2006 07:24 PM
"I wanted to hear for myself what was going on," Scrushy said. "I wouldnât believe anything that man (Fastow) said. This is horrible that there are people who would do something like this to a company."
Scrushy doesn't think too much of CFOs. After all, he hired one after another who came in and perpetrated a $2.4 billion fraud right under his unsuspecting nose. I bet Ken Lay wishes he'd shut up.
BTW, if you haven't seen Enron: The Smartest Guys In the Room, check it out. It's depressing but very well done.
Posted by: Kathy at March 11, 2006 01:18 PM
Good point Kathy.
Susan: I could be mistaken, but my understanding that it would be on the Eastern Valley side. I took it to mean just down from the Food World, strip mall et al. Couldn't really put it anywhere else unless they start buying and demolishing.
Posted by: Kenny at March 11, 2006 06:37 PM