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Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 69 Location: Largo Florida
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:53 am Post subject: Illustrious AOG Member Alice Faye Redd Died Of Cancer?
Illustrious AOG Member Alice Faye Redd Died Of Cancer?
Alice Faye Redd once a member of Carpenter's Home Church, Lakeland, Florida and later Victory Assembly of God in 1995 was sentenced to 15 years in prison for defrauding more than 100 people especially the elderly out of $3.5 million. The Auburndale native was released from prison in 1998 at the age of 61 because she was battling spinal cancer and the Parole Commission learned she was dying. She lived another four years before dying in 2002.
It was established in the Florida court by Debby, Dan Strader’s secretary from 1989 to 1992, that Dan quoted the bible “The wealth of the wicked will be inherited by the righteous.” Especially when he talked about and mocked three of his investors and called them alcoholics, a red neck and a truck driver. Other events would show that the Straders of Carpenter's Home Church, Lakeland, Florida, knew how to quote Scripture verses but they didn’t know how to live by them. There is a difference that is evident to all!
Although, some people, including Senior Pastors of Assembly of God churches, such as Karl Strader, memorized chapters and even books of the Bible, they definitely didn’t put into practice the bible the way it was meant to be. For many of them did not do anything about the injustices and wrongs in their denomination. Again, there is a difference between memorizing and doing the bible.
What was proven and established by the courts was that Dan stalked and preyed on the trusting and defenseless elderly. The unfortunate part is that the group of people, who were mostly hurt by the criminal actions of Dan Strader and his competitor Alice Faye Redd, were the elderly. It was a group that was defenseless and powerless and an easy prey to those who were supposed to be trustworthy.
In the PTL Scandal, it was also the widows with their small monthly incomes that became the target of Jim Bakker, in his search for easy money. It was no coincidence that both Jim and Dan pleaded not guilty and they both got a 45-year sentence.
The leadership in the Assembly of God never addressed this issue of who would help the victims caused by prominent members of their denomination. Nor did they help and befriend the real victims of Dan and Karl Strader, as well as of the Redds. Which is something that Jesus would have wanted us to do?
For Jesus demanded this of those who were called by His name and told about it in the story of the good Samaritan. The story of a certain man who had fallen among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and left, leaving him half dead. Just like what happened to the many real victims of Dan Strader and Alice Faye Redd. As a result Jesus asked this question of one who wanted to know what was the greatest commandment and who was his neighbor:
“So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?” And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” (Luke 10:36-37)
http://www.christiannews.0catch.com/strader.htm
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 69 Location: Largo Florida
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject: Judge Denies Strader's Last-Chance Appeal
Judge Denies Strader's Last-Chance Appeal Writ Son of
By Jeff Scullin, The Ledger, March 27, 2004
BARTOW -- After nearly a decade, a federal court ruling this week all but ended Daniel Strader's appeals of his 45-year prison sentence for cheating elderly investors out of millions of dollars.
Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew denied Strader's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, declining Strader's request to review his claims that the state of Florida had violated his constitutional rights in prosecuting him for fraud and other charges. The judge denied Strader's petition with prejudice, barring him from filing a similar petition.
Unless Bucklew or the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta grants Strader what is known as a certificate of appealability -- basically, permission to appeal -- Bucklew's decision means Strader is out of legal challenges.
"An appeal is not automatic (because) the standard of review is fairly strict," Assistant Attorney General Trish McCarthy, who handled Strader's case, said Friday. "From our perspective, the case is at an end."
Tim Weber, the St. Petersburg lawyer who represents Strader, said he thought there were sufficient legal grounds on which to appeal Bucklew's ruling. He said he plans to discuss an appeal with Strader and his family next week.
If Strader decides not to appeal or the federal courts were to deny a certificate of appealability, Bucklew's ruling would be the "end of the line" of Strader's legal challenges, Weber said.
In 1995, Strader -- the son of Karl Strader, pastor of Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland -- was sentenced to 45 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 238 counts of theft, conspiracy, securities fraud and racketeering. He's been in prison since August of 1995 and is currently housed at Avon Park Correctional Institution.
As president of Interstate Financial Services, Strader, 45, organized a Ponzi scheme that bilked 56 investors, most of whom were elderly, out of $2.3 million.
Strader's subsequent appeals and motions for post-conviction relief failed. Two years ago, Weber filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the U.S. District Court in Tampa, arguing that Strader's due process rights had been violated.
The petition included allegations that prosecutors had withheld evidence favorable to Strader's case and that Strader had received ineffective legal representation because his lawyer, the late Jack Edmund, had not adequately prepared for trial or investigated the case.
But the heart of Strader's allegations was that prosecutors had coached their star witness and his former business partner, Gary Pernice, to change his testimony about promises they had made to him about receiving a lenient sentence in exchange for his cooperation.
Pernice, a former Atlanta lawyer, pleaded guilty in 1995 to felony grand theft charges involving three of Strader's victims. He was sentenced to spend one weekend a month in jail for the next 15 years and ordered to pay 28 percent of his income toward restitution.
Weber said Bucklew never addressed the allegation that prosecutors coached Pernice, which he called "the guts" of Strader's petition.
"We do not feel that the court even addressed the primary argument that we made, which is a little disconcerting," he said.
Other than appealing Bucklew's ruling, Strader's remaining option for lessening his sentence would be asking the governor for clemency. Weber said he thought Strader would have a case for clemency based on what he described as the inordinately lengthy sentence Strader received.
Strader is scheduled to be released from prison in September 2024, according to the Department of Corrections' Web site.
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