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DONKEY: Florida: Eight People Arrested In Church Donation Fraud Scheme · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: You're trying to be a fake ass charlamagne some donkey
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  Speaker 1: Day what is it say it again charlamagne i'm a
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  Speaker 1: donkey yes you are a donkey everything.
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  Speaker 3: That charlamagne is saying is.
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  Speaker 1: True Yes, donkey of the day for Wednesday, November 11th,
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  Speaker 1: Veterans Day, goes to eight individuals in Manatee County, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: whose names I can't pronounce. Now, before Jess Hilaria say
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  Speaker 1: these names, because she's part Mexican, what does your.
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Charlotte always say about the great state of Florida?
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  Speaker 1: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and
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  Speaker 1: all of Florida, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: Who are the eight individuals? Jessica Robin War.
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  Speaker 3: Luke Massey, Espinosa Obregon, Luis Miguel Sanchez Santos, Lisaida Castro Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 3: Ismarie Ferrer Alonso, Luis Enrique Vardez Camejo, Dayanis Leon Hernandez,
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  Speaker 3: Duvier Hernandez Canizares, and Isidro Gonzalez Gomez.
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  Speaker 2: Dropping the Clues Bonds for Jessica Robin Moore. See, that's
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  Speaker 2: what happens when your in-laws are Mexican.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the eight individuals, who by the sounds of their
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  Speaker 1: names will probably all get deported, have been arrested in
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  Speaker 1: Florida for allegedly being involved in a scheme that stole
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  Speaker 1: more than $ 260, 000 in checks, including donations intended for churches.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Not the American fast food chain that specializes in sovereign-style
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  Speaker 1: fried chicken. I'm talking about the institution Ty Tribbett was
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  Speaker 1: just here talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, a community or assembly of Christian believers.
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  Speaker 1: That's who these fools were stealing from.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to WFLA for the report, please.
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  Speaker 5: These six individuals, plus two more, are accused of swindling
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  Speaker 5: at least 17 Manatee County churches, including Harvest United Methodist Church,
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  Speaker 5: of $ 72, 000. Detective Rachel Fasasika with the Manatee County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 5: Office says the suspect's scheme wasn't sophisticated.
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  Speaker 4: The suspects were stealing directly out of the church mailboxes.
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  Speaker 4: And they would hit, they would come into Manatee County
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  Speaker 4: and hit numerous churches.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators say the fraud kept going from September 2025 to
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  Speaker 5: May 2026 because parishioners were unaware the checks weren't making
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  Speaker 5: it to the churches. Bufasa Sica says the suspects didn't
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  Speaker 5: make it hard to find them.
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  Speaker 4: The checks that I was seeing in these accounts that
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  Speaker 4: had been mobile deposited, none of them were altered. You
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  Speaker 4: could see on the back of the check there was
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  Speaker 4: an illegible signature. Some of them actually wrote their names,
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  Speaker 4: but they just put them in their account.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't just Manatee County churches that were affected, though.
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  Speaker 5: As the sheriff's office says, they've identified 268 stolen checks
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  Speaker 5: and nearly $ 194, 000 in confirmed losses from churches across the
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  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay area.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, now, now, now.
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  Speaker 1: I know the good book the Bible says, the love
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  Speaker 1: of money is the root of all evil.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently these folks heard that.
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  Speaker 1: And said, well, let's just get straight to the root. OK,
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  Speaker 1: this is despicable. Stealing is already bad enough. OK, it's
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  Speaker 1: number eight of the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not steal.
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  Speaker 1: But stealing from churches, stealing money that people voluntarily gave
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  Speaker 1: because they believe in something bigger than themselves, because they
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  Speaker 1: believe in God. That's a different level of low. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing the cha-cha slide in hell.
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  Speaker 2: With Satan, okay? How low can you go?
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  Speaker 1: When somebody gives money to a church, they're not always
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  Speaker 1: giving because they have extra money lying around, okay? These
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  Speaker 1: people be on fixed incomes. Sometimes that's somebody working two jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's an elderly person who's been given to that
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  Speaker 1: same church forever, okay? They're giving because they believe their
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  Speaker 1: contribution matters.
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  Speaker 2: Tithes and offerings, okay?
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  Speaker 1: The practice of giving 10% of your income, okay? produce
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  Speaker 1: our financial increase back to God. And look, I know
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  Speaker 1: God don't need no paper. I wish churches didn't say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's returning what already belongs to God because
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  Speaker 1: God don't need none of our material things. I wish
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  Speaker 1: churches would just focus on the offering simply because it
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  Speaker 1: costs to run a church.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Offerings are designated for particular causes, church building fund, missionary work, uh,
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  Speaker 1: disaster relief stuff like that so i have no problem
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  Speaker 1: with the offering and i know everybody has their opinions
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  Speaker 1: about churches some people think pastor's making too much money
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  Speaker 1: some people question where the ties go those are conversations
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  Speaker 1: worth having but none of that gives you the right
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  Speaker 1: to steal somebody else's donation okay you are not robin
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  Speaker 1: hood you don't get to decide you know that because
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  Speaker 1: you don't respect an institution the money people give to
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  Speaker 1: that church belongs to to to them it don't belong
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  Speaker 1: to you okay it belongs to them and then belongs
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  Speaker 1: to the church and y'all underestimated how much these people
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  Speaker 1: watch their own money because you heard on the news
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  Speaker 1: report the investigation started after a pastor at harvest united
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  Speaker 1: methodist church noticed that the church wasn't receiving as much
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  Speaker 1: mail as usual okay you think the church not gonna
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  Speaker 1: notice when the paper getting low okay church members started
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  Speaker 1: asking whether their donations had arrived because i guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: wasn't no baked ziti at the sunday church dinner All right.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out investigators say those checks were being deposited in
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  Speaker 1: the other people's accounts. That's that's that's not receiving a blessing, man.
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  Speaker 1: That's committing alleged bank fraud.
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  Speaker 2: OK. And apparently these folks weren't even members of the church.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say they had no connection to the congregations they targeted.
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  Speaker 1: So you weren't attending Sunday service. You weren't volunteering. You
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  Speaker 1: weren't helping feed nobody. You weren't contributing to anything. You
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  Speaker 1: just saw an opportunity to take. OK, some of y'all
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  Speaker 1: just out here fighting to get in the hell.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: There are people in this world who see somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: kindness as an opportunity to exploit them.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't see generosity. They see weakness. And when you
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  Speaker 1: have that mentality, nothing is sacred. Not a church, not
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  Speaker 1: a charity, not a school, not a nonprofit, not somebody's
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  Speaker 1: grandma trying to do something good with the little money
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  Speaker 1: she has. Think about what happens after something like this, man.
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  Speaker 1: You just messing up everything. Churches have to spend more
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  Speaker 1: time and money protecting donations. People start questioning whether their
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  Speaker 1: contributions are reaching the intended destination. Trust gets damaged and
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  Speaker 1: trust is a hell of a thing to rebuild because
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  Speaker 1: once you convince people that their generosity makes them vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Some people stop being generous. Simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, these eight individuals have been arrested and charged, not convicted,
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  Speaker 1: so the courts will determine their guilt, but The behavior
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  Speaker 1: itself deserves to be condemned. And I want people to
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  Speaker 1: understand something. You don't have to believe in God to
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  Speaker 1: respect somebody else's faith, okay? You don't have to attend
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  Speaker 1: church to understand that stealing from a church is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And you damn sure don't have to be religious to
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  Speaker 1: know that exploiting people's generosity is a terrible way to
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  Speaker 1: move through life, okay? Because when you steal from people
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  Speaker 1: who are trying to give, you're doing more than taking
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  Speaker 1: their money. You're attacking the very idea that people should
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  Speaker 1: just simply look out for one another. And Lord knows...
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  Speaker 1: We need more of that in this world, not less.
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  Speaker 1: So please give the eight individuals arrested in this Florida
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  Speaker 1: church donation fraud investigation the.
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  Speaker 2: Biggest, hija. You feel like saying their names again?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: You want me to?
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  Speaker 2: Do the last names. Let's do the last names. Okay, okay, okay. Obregon.
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  Speaker 4: Santos. Ice.
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  Speaker 2: Gonzalo. Ice. Olanzo.
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  Speaker 4: Ice.
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  Speaker 2: Camejo.
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  Speaker 4: Ice.
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  Speaker 2: Hernandez.
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  Speaker 5: Ice.
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  Speaker 2: Canizares.
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  Speaker 4: Ice.
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  Speaker 2: Gomez.
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  Speaker 4: Ice.
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  Speaker 2: I just want you all to know that ice awaits you.
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