{"id":1735514,"date":"2022-11-11T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735514"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:03:38","slug":"warnocks-church-faces-subpoena-threat-as-georgia-runoff-campaign-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warnocks-church-faces-subpoena-threat-as-georgia-runoff-campaign-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Warnock\u2019s Church Faces Subpoena Threat as Georgia Runoff Campaign Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwarnocks-church-faces-subpoena-threat-as-georgia-runoff-campaign-kicks-off%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After Sen. Raphael Warnock&#8217;s (D., Ga.) church failed to respond to an Oct. 12 inquiry into its charity registration, the Georgia Office of Secretary of State\u00a0is weighing whether to file a subpoena against the group, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are mulling how to ratchet up the pressure on the Ebenezer Building Foundation, including whether to issue a formal subpoena against the church if it does not respond when a Georgia state investigator delivers another investigative letter, a spokesman for the state charities division told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> on Thursday. Though it is not clear precisely when the second letter will be delivered, authorities are expected to do so in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The Securities and Charities Division of Georgia&#8217;s Office of Secretary of State instructed the foundation, which is controlled by Warnock&#8217;s Ebenezer Baptist Church, to answer its initial <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/georgia-launches-investigation-into-warnocks-church-following-free-beacon-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> by Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s threat of an investigative subpoena against Ebenezer&#8217;s charity could pose problems for Warnock as he launches his runoff campaign against Republican challenger Herschel Walker. The Dec. 6 runoff contest could determine which party controls the Senate if Republicans notch a victory in Arizona or Nevada, which are still tabulating votes from Tuesday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>The church, which pays Warnock a $7,417-per-month tax-free housing allowance, intermingles its finances with the charity. The two entities ended 2021 with combined cash and &#8220;cash equivalents&#8221; exceeding $1.2 million, according to audited <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ebenezer-Grant-Application.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financial statements<\/a> obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The charity, which owns a low-income apartment building that moved to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/raphael-warnocks-church-pays-for-his-home-its-also-trying-to-evict-the-poor-from-theirs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evict<\/a> residents during the pandemic, has claimed in IRS tax filings dating back to 2011 that it is registered to operate in Georgia. But state authorities told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> in October that this claim isn&#8217;t true. Charities operating without registration can face civil fines, and in more extreme cases, the Georgia secretary of state can <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.georgia.gov\/charitable-solicitations-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bar<\/a> offenders from raising funds in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock&#8217;s ties to his church&#8217;s low-income apartment building dogged him in the last weeks of his campaign. Warnock <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/under-scrutiny-warnock-claims-without-evidence-walker-is-exploiting-the-people-facing-evictions-from-ebenezer-baptist-churchs-low-income-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Walker of trying to &#8220;exploit&#8221; the disadvantaged residents who faced eviction during the pandemic and that the Republican was sullying the name of civil-rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. for &#8220;short-term political gain.&#8221; Walker has placed the issue at the center of his runoff campaign, launching the &#8220;Evict Warnock Bus Tour&#8221; on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state&#8217;s probe is not the only investigation looming over Warnock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Sen. Raphael Warnock&#8217;s (D., Ga.) church failed to respond to an Oct. 12 inquiry into its charity registration, the Georgia Office of Secretary of State\u00a0is weighing whether to file a subpoena against the group, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.<br \/>\nThe post Warnock\u2019s Church Faces Subpoena Threat as Georgia Runoff Campaign Kicks Off appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1735517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}