In this March 3, 2010, file photo, the Rev. Carl Keyes speaks to an audience in Harrisonburg, Va., about his life experiences relating to his organization, Aid for the World. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Keyes and his wife, Donna, two New York City ministers who were the subject of an Associated Press expose, have agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that they used congregation funds to enrich themselves and buy a luxury home.By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press
NEW YORK – A New York City minister who was the subject of an Associated Press investigation about misspent 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina charity funds has agreed to repay $1.2 million that he took from his congregation to buy an 18th-century farmhouse on seven acres in rural New Jersey.
The Rev. Carl Keyes and his wife, the Rev. Donna Keyes, who jointly led the Glad Tidings Tabernacle in Manhattan, signed a legal judgment Wednesday settling a probe by the New York attorney general into a series of questionable church financial transactions.
Those deals included an illegal loan the couple took from the church in 2008 to buy a house in Stockton, New Jersey, near the Delaware River, and $500,000 the church lent an anti-poverty charity controlled by Carl Keyes, called Aid for the World.