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DATE: TUESDAY, April 10, 1990                   TAG: 9004100511
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: CHARLOTTE, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short

EX-PTL PASTOR BEGINS FEDERAL PERJURY TRIAL

A former PTL executive testified Monday that a minister knew when he loaned $10,000 that the money would be used to keep quiet PTL founder Jim Bakker's sexual tryst with a church secretary.

Testifying for the prosecution in the Rev. Sam Johnson's federal perjury trial, Richard Dortch said he spelled out precise details about the scandal during a 1984 meeting with Johnson and former Bakker aide David Taggart.

Dortch, serving an eight-year prison term, was granted a furlough to testify against Johnson, a former PTL pastor charged with lying to the federal grand jury that indicted Bakker. Johnson, now pastor of Heritage Church in Charlotte, repeatedly told the panel that he couldn't remember where he got the money to loan Dortch.

- Associated Press 


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