MIAMI – A pastor in Miami’s Coconut Grove group is going through federal legal fees after investigators mentioned he collected on a dead person’s Social Security advantages for greater than a decade.
Michael Gene Bryant, 57, is going through fees together with robbery of presidency price range and making false statements to a federal company. He is the pastor of Greater Sweetfield (*12*) Baptist Church, positioned at 3585 Plaza St.
According to a federal indictment, Bryant changed into the consultant payee for an individual known in courtroom paperwork as “H. L. G.” in 1996.
“H. L. G.” died on Oct. 17, 2012, however government mentioned Bryant by no means knowledgeable Social Security and saved amassing bills till this January. Prosecutors mentioned he lied on govt paperwork and claimed the beneficiary nonetheless lived with him.
The paperwork don’t state how much cash government are accusing Bryant of amassing.
No one got here to the door when Local 10 News went to Bryant’s house to invite him concerning the fees.
A former parishioner mentioned she’s “shocked” via the allegations and “in disbelief.”
“That is like unbelievable to me,” Charolette Smith, who lives proper subsequent to the church, mentioned. “You go there to hear the word. Coming from a pastor, it’s like, what are you doing?”
He may resist 20 years at the back of bars.
Read the indictment:
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