Financial Lawsuit

Description:

Cults that have had a lawsuit filed against them alleging financial misconduct from the organization or it's leaders. Note: his tag does not mean that they were convicted of these charges, or that the allegations were substantiated.

Cults:

Access Consciousness
Agape Ministries - A doomsday cult which planned to trap members on an island and reportedly intended to kill disobedient followers (1980s - 2010s)
Alamo Christian Foundation - Run by a successful televangelist who trafficked children for sex and had an unhealthy obsession with his dead wife (1969 - present)
Art of Living Foundation
Chad and Lori Daybell
The Family - An Australian sect that illegally took 14 children and severely abused them for several years (1964 - present)
Fellowship of Friends
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (Exclusive Brethren)
The Way International
Devra West
Word of Faith Fellowship - A church in which the leader controls every aspect of member's lives and members are ritualistically abused as a form of exorcism (1979 - present)
The Work (Brother Julius) - A wealthy cult that chopped the leader into pieces, believing it was the will of God