A revised lawsuit against Oral Roberts University has a whooper of a claim.

Trent Huddleston, who  filed a wrongful dismissal claim against the University’s former board and Oral Roberts Evangelistic Ministries initially filed in November 2007. 
He was employed at ORU as a senior accountant from July 2006 to October 2007. His amended claim was filed with the court last Thursday.

His amended filing states he was ordered to ‘cook the books’,  falsely list thousands of dollars as assets rather than expenditures and that he became aware of one unrestricted account that was used to funnel exceedingly large sums of money through the university each month.

1 billion dollars according to the amended filing.
What the court document actually says is :

6) Obviously the Defendants were fearful that Plaintiff would disclose the existence of this unrestricted account that was used to funnel these exceedingly large sums of money through the University that, on an annual basis would exceed 1 billion, so they constructively discharged the Plaintiff on the date of a scheduled audit.

You can access Huddleston’s filing here.  His filing also says:

It appears that many of the former board members were actual participants in the funneling of money through the university for their own eventual personal use, and thus, the foxes were watching the hen house.

These are very serious and specific claims put before an Oklahoma court.
Huddleston’s suit came after 3 professors filed a wrongful dismissal suit. 
The outside audit done as stated in the claim has not been released by ORU.
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Update: Tim and Pualita Brooker (professors) settled thier wrongful termination suit they filed a year ago - the details are not being released. The settlement was announced October 22nd. Huddleson’s and student suits have not been resolved.

Televangelists Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar and Benny Hinn named in the Huddleston suit, are resisting a senate committee inquiry into their organizations finances. Of six ministries asked, only Joyce Meyer complied.  Basically the other organizations have told Senator Grassley to  bugger off and back off.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is increasing pressure on five large ministries that have refused to respond to his financial inquiry even as political watchers say the investigation could hurt Republicans in the upcoming election.

Grassley, a Republican and the ranking member of the Senate’s finance committee, is sending a second round of letters asking the preachers whether they use church money to bankroll their lavish lifestyles and private businesses. His inquiry is questioning whether they have violated their tax-exempt status.

The new letters, which could go out any day, renew the possibility of issuing subpoenas for information and testimony from those who don’t comply, including Without Walls International Church and Paula White Ministries in Tampa.

“I don’t intend to give up and go away,” Grassley said Thursday. “I work on oversight projects until I get answers and results.”

At the same time, he and others who support the inquiry face growing pressure to drop the matter, observers said. Politicians who have relied on the votes of evangelical Christians don’t want to see Grassley infuriate a crucial voting bloc.

Messy, messy, messy.