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| Oren Paris II began the tiny college as a one-year YWAM training facility. His widow Inez is on the board and on the payroll. |
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| Oren Paris III. His son is Oren Paris IV. |
Indictment: 3 state grants key in scheme:
"According to the indictment, Ecclesia College would write checks, approved by Paris, to a consulting firm owned by Shelton "as a pass-through." Shelton, a mutual friend of Paris and Woods, would deposit the checks and make payments to Woods, it says.
Paris did not tell his college's board he paid $267,000 to a consulting business owned by his friend until October 2015, after federal investigators questioned him about it, his indictment says.
In one transaction, Paris authorized $50,000 to Shelton's firm on Sept. 27, 2013 -- the same day Paris signed an agreement for the college to accept a $200,000 state General Improvement Fund grant, the indictment says. Shelton used the $50,000 that day to open an account for his business, which had been incorporated the day before, the document reads.
Less than a week later, on or about Oct. 1, 2013, Shelton transferred by wire $40,000 from that business account directly into the personal bank account of Woods, who had directed the grant to the college.
The college's board of governance awarded Paris a $25,000 bonus Oct. 3, 2013 -- the day the college deposited the check, the indictment says."
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The indictment says another benefit to Woods was that Paris agreed to hire a friend of Woods as an administrative assistant. That person is not named in the indictment. The woman received a $7,000 hiring bonus and a $43,000 annual salary.
Attempts to reach seven members of Ecclesia's governance board Friday were not successful.
GJ - I remember Oren III suddenly having an executive assistant. Faculty were enrolled in a sanctification course authored by Oren Paris II, and she was in charge of grading the lessons! I demurred.
Exodus 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
2 Timothy 3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
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| The predicted massive expansion never happened. No dorms were built. The college added a large room to an old building. |