A granddaughter accused TV evangelists Paul and Jan Crouch in 2012 of spending their network's donations on themselves

Paul and Jan Crouch founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1973. In 2004 the Los Angeles Times reported that TBN collected more than $120 million a year from viewers, more than any other TV ministry. It paid Paul $403,700 and Jan $361,000 a year and provided a TBN-owned jet and 30 homes, including two Newport Beach mansions and a Texas ranch. The paper reported that in 1998 Paul Crouch paid a former employee $425,000 to settle a wrongful termination suit^†. In March 2012 their granddaughter Brittany Koper, TBN's former finance director, accused Jan Crouch in court filings of misappropriating network funds for a lavish lifestyle and said TBN appeared to violate the IRS ban on excess compensation by nonprofits^†. The New York Times reported the fight in May 2012. Another granddaughter sued TBN the same year, alleging a TBN employee raped her when she was 13^†. TBN denied wrongdoing^†. Paul Crouch died in 2013 and Jan Crouch in 2016^†. Their son Matt Crouch has run TBN since 2015^†. In 2017 TBN sold its Costa Mesa campus^†.