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...result was an FCC investigation, which was halted when Bakker sold off a TV station in Canton, Ohio. The Justice Department later found no grounds for prosecuting PTL. A subsequent story said FCC testimony had accused Bakker and his wife of funneling donations into such perks as a houseboat, a mink coat and a sports car. The Bakkers denied the accusation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Really Bad Day at Fort Mill | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...stripping Bakker's license to a TV station in Canton, Ohio, then let him sell it to Anti-Communist Crusader Billy James Hargis. Last month the Observer asserted that, during the FCC deliberations, former PTL executives had testified the Bakkers used donations to buy a sports car, a houseboat, a mink coat and other personal perks. Seething, Bakker produced documents to rebut the accusations and called them a plot to "destroy us." But he does live well, even as he pleads poverty on the air and lays off some 500 employees (as he did weeks ago). He tools around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Power, Glory - and Politics | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Certainly after the divorce, if not before, Walker was often seen escorting attractive women to Norfolk nightspots. His fondness for Scotch brought him a now ironic nickname, "Johnny Walker Red." He could take dates on Chesapeake Bay cruises in his green houseboat, the Drift-R-Cruise, or on his 26-ft. sloop (each valued by his lawyer at $6,000). There were also flights in his single-engine Grumman Tiger, which was worth an estimated $20,000. He dated Pamela Carroll, a Norfolk police officer who moonlighted at his private detective agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Serious Losses | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

Searches of John's two-story brick-and-wood home in Norfolk, as well as his houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Brother Makes Three | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...even a little sex. Or so claimed Elizabeth Ray, the famed blond secretary who could not type. During the congressional sex scandal revelations of 1976, Ray reportedly told federal investigators that her former boss, Kenneth Gray, had arranged for her to sleep with Alaska Senator Mike Gravel on a houseboat outing in August of 1972 in hopes of securing his support for some visitor-center legislation. Gray and Gravel have denied the allegations. Says Gray: "She never had a damn thing to do with the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington, D.C.: Last Stop for Union Station | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

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