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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Abraham Kennard</title>
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		<title>Preacher gets 17 years after bilking churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly $9 million stolen
ROME - A small-town preacher was sentenced to 171/2 years in prison Thursday for stealing nearly $9 million from some 1,600 black churches across the country by promising them big returns on small investments.
Abraham Kennard also was ordered to pay nearly $8 million in restitution, pay almost $600,000 in back taxes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preacher found guilty of stealing from hundreds of black churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A preacher was found guilty Monday of stealing nearly $9 million from hundreds of small, black churches across the country.
Jurors in the Abraham Kennard case deliberated for only a few hours, after having to start over when one of the jurors fell ill. They had begun deliberating on Friday.
Kennard, 46, of Wildwood, Ga., was found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No fraud verdict reached</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jurors will resume deliberations Monday 
The 12 jurors who have been listening to arguments in federal court for the past month looked relieved Friday afternoon to learn they wouldn’t have to decide the fate of defendant Abraham Kennard until next week. 
U.S. District Judge Harold L. Murphy announced just before 5 p.m. that, after nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preacher accused of preying on faithful awaits verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME, Ga. - The faith of more than 1,600 small, black churches in 41 states was the foundation for a $9 million scheme carried out by a north Georgia preacher, prosecutors said Thursday.
The churches scraped together the $3,000 fee to join as &#8220;members&#8221; of the Rev. Abraham Kennard&#8217;s business, expecting a windfall for their churches, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecution rests in preacher&#8217;s fraud trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government says minister bilked churches to fund costly lifestyle
ROME — After 17 days and 63 witnesses, prosecutors on Wednesday rested their case against Abraham Kennard, a charismatic preacher accused of bilking 1,609 churches and religious organizations out of more than $8.7 million.
Kennard, 46, who has acted as his own defense lawyer along with a court-appointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defendant&#8217;s brother tells of gambling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRS special agent begins her testimony  
The prosecution hopes to rest its case in the federal church fraud trial Monday.
Abraham Kennard gambled away a chunk of the $9 million he is accused of stealing from 1,600 churches across the country, his brother testified in federal court Friday morning.
Alvin Jasper, Kennard’s brother and former co-defendant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former business associate takes stand in fraud trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one time vice president of administration for NIIC has agreed to a 3-year sentence for her plea.
Abraham Kennard’s former business associate and co-defendant took the stand in federal court Wednesday to testify against him.
Jannie Trammel, who once served as vice president of administration for Kennard’s company, was indicted along with Kennard for conspiracy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastors say man swindled poor churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Robert Armstrong, pastor of St. Mark&#8217;s Primitive Baptist Church in Springfield, Tenn., took $3,000 out of his savings to invest with Abraham Kennard.
He believed Kennard would make good on his promise that St. Mark&#8217;s and its 20 members would receive $200,000 to remodel their building.
He believed it because he saw Evander Holyfield&#8217;s brother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 pastors face defendant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From behind the witness stand Wednesday, two pastors got the long-awaited chance to square off with the man at the podium before them — a man who was once their trusted business partner and is now defending himself against federal fraud charges.
Abraham Kennard is accused of using his company, Network International Investment Corporation, to steal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fraud trial in second week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defendant Abraham Kennard told the Rome News-Tribune today that &#8220;things are going OK&#8221; as the second week of his trial starts in federal court. 
&#8220;I think the Lord&#8217;s with me,&#8221; Kennard said soberly as a court marshal escorted him to a holding cell for this afternoon&#8217;s lunch break. 
Kennard, who is defending himself against charges [...]]]></description>
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