Bond set at $250,000 for Wayne Miller, president of Cathedral Bible College with Myrtle Beach campus
Source: Sun News
Bond set at $250,000 for Wayne Miller, president of Cathedral Bible College with Myrtle Beach campus
By David Wren
dwren@thesunnews. May 23, 2014
FLORENCE Reginald Wayne Miller, the president and founder of Cathedral Bible College, is not allowed to set foot on the college campus in Marion or communicate with any of the schools current or former foreign students as an investigation continues into allegations that Miller threatened to cancel foreign students visas if they did not work long hours for little pay.
Those terms are part of a $250,000 secured bond that Magistrate Judge Thomas Rogers set for Miller during a detention hearing Friday in federal court. In addition, Miller will be on home detention and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device.
I dont think weve identified all of the potential victims yet, said Carrie Fisher, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case. Fisher said some victims may have already left the country and some may be former students who have yet to come forward. Our investigation just started this week.
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Agents with Homeland Security Investigations filed a criminal complaint against Miller this week saying they have probable cause to charge him with forced labor, a felony that carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years for each count. Investigators say Miller forced foreign students to work at the campus and his personal residence for as little as $25 per week. Miller threatened to cancel the students visas if they complained or didnt comply with his demands, according to an affidavit filed this week.
Read more: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2014/05/23/4244746/bond-set-at-250000-for-wayne-miller.html#storylink=cpy
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)SC pastor accused of turning Bible college into forced labor camp for foreign students
By David Edwards
Sunday, May 25, 2014 14:21 EDT
The president of a South Carolina Bible college was charged last week with essentially treating foreign students as slaves by forcing them to perform work for little or no pay.
According to The Sun News, federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Cathedral Bible College President Reginald Wayne Miller, accusing him of forced labor.
An affidavit included with the complaint said that students described a pervasive climate of fear in which their legal status as non-immigrant students was in constant jeopardy, at the sole discretion of Dr. Miller, who threatened expulsion and therefore termination of their legal presence in the United States for noncompliance with his demands.
Students told investigators that classes at the school were not real, and that the real purpose of the school was to force them to work over the maximum of 20 hours per week that federal law allows for student visas. The students alleged that Miller often forced them to live in substandard conditions without hot water, heat or air-conditioning.
More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/25/sc-pastor-accused-of-turning-bible-college-into-forced-labor-camp-for-foreign-students/
kardonb
(777 posts)jaja , die lieben Christen .
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)paying taxes on everything.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Slip_n_Slide
(30 posts)Stuart G
(38,428 posts)You know it is hard to not believe this guy is guilty. The government would not have charged him, if they didn't have pretty solid proof.
This guy is the "born again, of all of them.." Do you suppose this is just one complaint? Or many, like in the case in Penn. where the guy raped the kids? Remember, and this is important, it was not just one there, and you had better bet, it is not just one in South Carolina..a beautiful campus right near the ocean..
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cathedral+Bible+College+MB+CAMPUS/
When you hit this link, also hit the blue hand held magnifier at the top left of the map..
.....it will take you Cathedral Bible College..
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Don't we have other law-enforcement agencies better suited to this type of thing?
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Thanks!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)SO many creeps and crooks, that use religion to pull off their criminal activities...and the Lemmings of America fall for it hook, line and sinker.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)He could really instill the worst kind of fear in any student. Think about living with that for four years, or whatever time you were there.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Over my life, I have run into so many otherwise absolutely spiteful and rotten people that believed absolutely they "are good christians". Still continue to. They make me sick.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Couldnt care less... And the MSM assures that it wont have much traction..
Hate is Hate and people who hate Progressive Politics will easily forget such revealing stories..
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)From a link called, The State, Southcarolina's Home Page
The students also told investigators that their living conditions at the college were substandard, including long periods of time without any hot water, heat or air conditioning. They also stated that the food provided by the college "was expired or insufficient for consumption and nutrition," according to the affidavit.
The Sun News is not naming the alleged victims because of privacy concerns in an ongoing investigation.
One student told investigators he had been promised $100 per week as part of a work-study program with the college. That student said he only makes $50 per week and regularly works between 46 hour and 56 hours each week. The student also said he worked for two weeks without any pay.
Another student told investigators that he was paid $50 per week for about 32 hours of work.
"Dr. Miller told [the student] if he did not like this work, he could go home or he [Miller] would call the Immigration and Naturalization Service," the affidavit states.
Another student at the college said he earns $50 per week for 40 hours of work.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/23/3463855/bond-set-at-250000-for-wayne-miller.html?sp=/99/132/154/157/#storylink=cpy
murpheeslaw
(110 posts)mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)He should spend a few years in prison.
Wolf
rpannier
(24,329 posts)We all remember in the New Testament how Jesus worked his disciples for meager wages and berated them for complaining.
Who can ever forget this tidbit from Jesus:
"When a foreigner enters your household immediately put him to work. If he complains have him cast from your town. Spare no rod, show no mercy for the foreigner you invite is merely a servant who should do as he is told and shut up."
-Source: Somewhere in the middle of the NT
vlakitti
(401 posts)Thank you.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)I guess that is the justification in this assholes mind for doing what he did. I hope he gets the rest of his life in jail to think it over..
nikto
(3,284 posts)Can't live with it.
dballance
(5,756 posts)The Bible does not in any way prohibit slavery. It is fully okay with making slaves of "foreigners."
So this guy is abiding by Biblical tradition and making slaves of people outside his tribe. What could be more Christian than subjugating people not of your tribe (Asians, African Americans, non-Americans) to your will under God's law?
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)nikto
(3,284 posts)In America,
who knew?
Didn't mean to be redundant.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=811530
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=811535
jabari0q
(2 posts)Ralph Reed's daughter Nicole was arrested yesterday and charged with theft at the Mall of Georgia after stealing a large amount of items on a school trip. She was immediately kicked out of Rabun Gap Nacoochee School, an exclusive private school in North Georgia.
Reed and his wife are known by the students and faculty of the school to be absentee parents who rarely pay attention to their children, and who sent Nicole off to boarding school. Nicole has been known to be rebellious, dating young black men much to the consternation of her father.
Now she has been kicked out of school, and is facing criminal charges.
Nice parenting, Ralph.
bloomington-lib
(946 posts)" In 2006, the Horry County Police Department charged Miller with lewdness and prostitution after Miller exposed himself to an undercover police officer in a bath house at Myrtle Beach State Park, according to a police report. Miller entered into a pre-trial intervention program and the charge ultimately was expunged."
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- K&R