NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- For 39 years, the Trinity Broadcasting Network has urged viewers to give generously and reap the Lord's bounty in return.
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"My job as finance director was to find ways to label extravagant personal spending as ministry expenses," Ms. Koper said. This is one way, she said, the company avoids probing questions from the I.R.S. She said that the absence of outsiders on TBN's governing board -- currently consisting of Paul, Janice and Matthew Crouch -- had led to a serious lack of accountability for spending.
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