JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The FBI is investigating a Jasonville, Fla., pastor who has resigned amid charges that church money intended for a European seminary was diverted into a Swiss bank account.
The FBI subpoenaed financial records from Deermeadows Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Jacksonville.
On May 31, church members voted to accept the resignation of James Altus Newell, a former Alabama Baptist pastor, who had been their pastor for 10 years.
Bill Cheek, a spokesman for the FBI, confirmed the agency was examining the church’s records, the Associated Press reported.
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