US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86

Bakker spent four and a half years in prison after being convicted in 1989 of defrauding followers in a scheme involving holidays at his Christian theme park The US televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a multimillion-dollar empire and lived in…
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