Bond set at $250,000 for Wayne Miller, president of Cathedral Bible College with Myrtle Beach campus

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Sun News

Bond set at $250,000 for Wayne Miller, president of Cathedral Bible College with Myrtle Beach campus
By David Wren
dwren@thesunnews. May 23, 2014

FLORENCE — Reginald Wayne Miller, the president and founder of Cathedral Bible College, is not allowed to set foot on the college campus in Marion or communicate with any of the school’s current or former foreign students as an investigation continues into allegations that Miller threatened to cancel foreign students’ visas if they did not work long hours for little pay.

Those terms are part of a $250,000 secured bond that Magistrate Judge Thomas Rogers set for Miller during a detention hearing Friday in federal court. In addition, Miller will be on home detention and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device.

“I don’t think we’ve identified all of the potential victims yet,” said Carrie Fisher, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case. Fisher said some victims may have already left the country and some may be former students who have yet to come forward. “Our investigation just started this week.”

~snip~

Agents with Homeland Security Investigations filed a criminal complaint against Miller this week saying they have probable cause to charge him with forced labor, a felony that carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years for each count. Investigators say Miller forced foreign students to work at the campus and his personal residence for as little as $25 per week. Miller threatened to cancel the students’ visas if they complained or didn’t comply with his demands, according to an affidavit filed this week.

Read more: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2014/05/23/4244746/bond-set-at-250000-for-wayne-miller.html#storylink=cpy

[Judi Lynn]

1. SC pastor accused of turning Bible college into forced labor camp for foreign students

SC pastor accused of turning Bible college into forced labor camp for foreign students
By David Edwards
Sunday, May 25, 2014 14:21 EDT

The president of a South Carolina Bible college was charged last week with essentially treating foreign students as slaves by forcing them to perform work for little or no pay.

According to The Sun News, federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Cathedral Bible College President Reginald Wayne Miller, accusing him of forced labor.

An affidavit included with the complaint said that students “described a pervasive climate of fear in which their legal status as non-immigrant students was in constant jeopardy, at the sole discretion of Dr. Miller, who threatened expulsion and therefore termination of their legal presence in the United States for noncompliance with his demands.”

Students told investigators that classes at the school “were not real,” and that the real purpose of the school was to force them to work over the maximum of 20 hours per week that federal law allows for student visas. The students alleged that Miller often forced them to live in substandard conditions without hot water, heat or air-conditioning.

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/25/sc-pastor-accused-of-turning-bible-college-into-forced-labor-camp-for-foreign-students/

[kardonb]

16. slave labor

jaja , die lieben Christen .

[kelliekat44]

2. This is where the IRS should be doing their jobs. These folks use the cover of religion to avoid

paying taxes on everything.

[KoKo]

4. Agree..n/t

[Slip_n_Slide]

3. If true hope he rots...

[Stuart G]

5. What an asshole.

You know it is hard to not believe this guy is guilty. The government would not have charged him, if they didn't have pretty solid proof.
This guy is the "born again, of all of them.." Do you suppose this is just one complaint? Or many, like in the case in Penn. where the guy raped the kids? Remember, and this is important, it was not just one there, and you had better bet, it is not just one in South Carolina..a beautiful campus right near the ocean..

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cathedral+Bible+College+MB+CAMPUS/


When you hit this link, also hit the blue hand held magnifier at the top left of the map..
.....it will take you Cathedral Bible College..

[arcane1]

6. Seems strange that Homeland Security would be involved in this.

Don't we have other law-enforcement agencies better suited to this type of thing?

[LeftyMom]

8. They handle immigration. He was exploiting immigrants. nt

[arcane1]

9. Ah, got it.

Thanks!

[SoapBox]

7. Another scammer, hiding behind a Bible and a cross.

SO many creeps and crooks, that use religion to pull off their criminal activities...and the Lemmings of America fall for it hook, line and sinker.

[Stuart G]

10. And since he was the founder, and President of the College,

He could really instill the worst kind of fear in any student. Think about living with that for four years, or whatever time you were there.

[Populist_Prole]

11. A human face of Corporate Jay-zuz

Over my life, I have run into so many otherwise absolutely spiteful and rotten people that believed absolutely they "are good christians". Still continue to. They make me sick.

[busterbrown]

13. People who put these stories on ignore..

Couldn’t care less... And the MSM assures that it won’t have much traction..

Hate is Hate and people who hate Progressive Politics will easily forget such revealing stories..

[Stuart G]

12. More info on this:

From a link called, The State, Southcarolina's Home Page


The students also told investigators that their living conditions at the college were substandard, including long periods of time without any hot water, heat or air conditioning. They also stated that the food provided by the college "was expired or insufficient for consumption and nutrition," according to the affidavit.

The Sun News is not naming the alleged victims because of privacy concerns in an ongoing investigation.

One student told investigators he had been promised $100 per week as part of a work-study program with the college. That student said he only makes $50 per week and regularly works between 46 hour and 56 hours each week. The student also said he worked for two weeks without any pay.

Another student told investigators that he was paid $50 per week for about 32 hours of work.

"Dr. Miller told [the student] if he did not like this work, he could go home or he [Miller] would call the Immigration and Naturalization Service," the affidavit states.

Another student at the college said he earns $50 per week for 40 hours of work.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/23/3463855/bond-set-at-250000-for-wayne-miller.html?sp=/99/132/154/157/#storylink=cpy

[murpheeslaw]

14. From the article, more hypocricy from the churchly type:

"Miller has had a past run-in with law enforcement. In 2006, the Horry County Police Department charged Miller with lewdness and prostitution after Miller exposed himself to an undercover police officer in a bath house at Myrtle Beach State Park, according to a police report. Miller entered into a pre-trial intervention program and the charge ultimately was expunged."

[mountain grammy]

15. Scamming the faithful.

[Enthusiast]

17. I love it when they catch one of these assholes.

[drm604]

18. How Christian of him.

[Wolf Frankula]

19. But Slavery is so Bibblikle!

He should spend a few years in prison.

Wolf

[rpannier]

20. Living his life just like Jesus

We all remember in the New Testament how Jesus worked his disciples for meager wages and berated them for complaining.
Who can ever forget this tidbit from Jesus:
"When a foreigner enters your household immediately put him to work. If he complains have him cast from your town. Spare no rod, show no mercy for the foreigner you invite is merely a servant who should do as he is told and shut up."
-Source: Somewhere in the middle of the NT

[vlakitti]

22. Perfect! YAY!

Thank you.

[Stuart G]

23. Thank You for posting this.

I guess that is the justification in this assholes mind for doing what he did. I hope he gets the rest of his life in jail to think it over..

[nikto]

26. Ah, organized religion...

Can't live with it.

[dballance]

21. You have to remember that the Bible only prohibits slavery for "God's chosen people."

The Bible does not in any way prohibit slavery. It is fully okay with making slaves of "foreigners."

So this guy is abiding by Biblical tradition and making slaves of people outside his tribe. What could be more Christian than subjugating people not of your tribe (Asians, African Americans, non-Americans) to your will under God's law?

[Ash_F]

24. What a piece of work. /nt

[nikto]

25. You mean slave labor isn't a Christian tradition?

In America,
who knew?




Didn't mean to be redundant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=811530

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=811535

[jabari0q]

27. Just another hypocrite like Ralph Reed

Ralph Reed's daughter Nicole was arrested yesterday and charged with theft at the Mall of Georgia after stealing a large amount of items on a school trip. She was immediately kicked out of Rabun Gap Nacoochee School, an exclusive private school in North Georgia.

Reed and his wife are known by the students and faculty of the school to be absentee parents who rarely pay attention to their children, and who sent Nicole off to boarding school. Nicole has been known to be rebellious, dating young black men much to the consternation of her father.

Now she has been kicked out of school, and is facing criminal charges.

Nice parenting, Ralph.

[bloomington-lib]

28. "Miller has had a past run-in with law enforcement"

" In 2006, the Horry County Police Department charged Miller with lewdness and prostitution after Miller exposed himself to an undercover police officer in a bath house at Myrtle Beach State Park, according to a police report. Miller entered into a pre-trial intervention program and the charge ultimately was expunged."

[DeSwiss]

29. They should give his barber some time too.....

- K&R

[Initech]

30. Somewhere, Jesus is part of a triple facepalm.

[valerief]

31. I'm sure Jesus would have made the same threats. nt