Jerry Falwell Jr. has certainly been taking a beating in the press lately. Not that it’s undeserved, of course. Now, the homophobic president and chancellor of Liberty University, the largest Christian college in the world, says there’s a “criminal conspiracy” against him and he’s reached out to the FBI for help.
Not to be dramatic or anything.
Speaking to The Hill this week, Falwell claimed he’s the victim of a nasty smear campaign being orchestrated by a gaggle of former university officials who are out to get him.
“Our attorneys have determined that this small group of former board members and employees, they’re involved in a criminal conspiracy, are working together to steal Liberty property in the form of emails and provided them to reporters,” Falwell alleged.
The Hill reports:
Falwell said in an exclusive interview that in the coming days the FBI will review university documents at the Lynchburg, Va., campus. He accused former colleagues of stealing school property in the form of emails and then sharing them with reporters in an effort to damage his reputation.
The claims come after that explosive exposé published by Politico earlier this week that alleged Falwell runs a “totally dysfunctional organization” and oversees a “culture of fear and self-dealing,” among other accusations.
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The Hill reports:
The story cited internal Liberty University emails, which Falwell Jr. and his attorney’s allege were stolen in a coordinated effort.
Falwell Jr. told Hill.TV that he believes the leak of internal emails was the result of a failed effort among former board of director members to oust him from control. He said the school was in financial distress after the death of his father, Jerry Falwell, and “disgruntled” board members had hoped to use this vulnerability as “leverage to take over.”
Conveniently, Falwell didn’t mention anything about the reports concerning his nefarious relationship with his hunky 20-something “personal trainer” Ben Crosswhite or his hunky 20-something pool boy Giancarlo Granda.
He also didn’t mention the fact that he was caught lying about those photos of him partying with a bunch of 20-somethings at a nightclub in Miami, or the rumors that he is “very, very vocal” about his sex life at the office and often sexts with male colleagues.
Instead, he made it all about other people’s jealousy about his success.
“They came here thinking that Liberty would remain in financial difficulty,” Falwell said of the people who are out to get him. “Instead I’ve been able to build a $2 billion unrestricted endowment.”
So far, the FBI hasn’t responded to requests for comment on the matter. Given Falwell’s well-documented penchant for telling untruths, we wouldn’t be surprised if the whole FBI investigation thing is a ruse.
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JaredMacBride
Why all the fuss about Falwell and his son in a nightclub? They were doing missionary work.
radiooutmike
I see what you did there.
jeff
LOL! It is such a shame, Daddy and son at the club and both power bottoms…
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
The. ULTIMATE…
Me think she doeth protest WAY too much…….
domen8r
Seems like, if it’s not another scam to lie his way out of crap, an FBI investigation would be welcome. They might finally get to the bottom (so to speak) of what’s been implied. Too often religious institutions do private investigations; an FBI one might actually result in some transparency in the matters.
Juanjo
If, as the article states, the emails in question were INTERNAL, that is, did not cross state lines, how does the FBI have jurisdiction here? It has been a few years since I looked at the statutes but I am not seeing a crime. If the emails were sent to the people who used the information in them to “leak” information about this gas bag, then they did not steal them. If the people validly had access to the emails, they did not steal them.
I have a feeling someone is telling a little fib here and his name begins with Fal and ends with well.
Josh in OR
So…this conspiracy is a conspiracy to reveal the truth? By leaking confidential e-mails to the media…? Emails that, if they didn’t prove or support the claims made against him…couldn’t hurt him or his reputation? Emails he doesn’t claim were fabricated, mind you…only stolen.
Basically, what I get out of this is, “These people are trying to destroy me using my own words and actions against me, with proof they STOLE! How dare they!?”
He sounds like every Drag Race villain. “It’s not MY FAULT I look like a total monster, it’s the editors – who edited together things I said and did that were totally villainous – that are trying to frame me!”
Gurl, please…
LEZZIES83
As a victim of Falwell’s particular interpretation of “religion” which is abusive to women, lesbians, gay men, young “queers”, EVERYBODY, I KNOW THE HORROR OF LIVING IN A CLOSET BECAUSE OF THIS FALSE AND MEAN RELIGION.
Coming out is still difficult (11/’2019) even though we have made progress. Fallwell, Jr., would be much happier giving up his lies and coming out to be a healthy, happy gay man, free of the stupid ideas that come from some fundamentalists about gay people ! Love yourself and do not let any —– phobe put you down for loving someone of your own sex !
Rex Huskey
tick tock tick tock… as will all things, its just a matter of time
Cam
Translation: Whistle blowers exposed Fallwaell’s fraud and he is desperately scrambling to try to prevent exposure.