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The Dallas Morning News
Julieta Chiquillo, The Dallas Morning News
Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service served a search warrant Wednesday at the Grapevine offices of televangelist Benny Hinn.
A large number of agents walked in and out of the offices with boxes, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported, but officials wouldn’t confirm to the TV station what they’re investigating or whether they’re looking into Hinn.
A woman who answered the phone for the Benny Hinn Ministries headquarters said she had no information.
Hinn was the subject of a 2007 U.S. Senate inquiry that looked into the spending of six televangelists. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned the personal use of church-owned airplanes, luxury homes and credit cards by pastors and their families, but there was no definitive finding of wrongdoing when the investigation ended in 2011.
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