Fraudulent televangelist Jim Bakker was slapped with a hefty penalty for promoting “silver solution” as a potential cure for COVID-19, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced in a statement.
Schmitt’s office said it had recovered $156,000 in restitution and obtained a consent judgment against Bakker and his Morningside Church Productions prohibiting the televangelist from selling or advertise the product and repay customers who had bought “silver solution” from him.
Restitution checks will be mailed out to victims within 30 days of the judgment.
Bakker rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s with his heavily made-up wife Tammy Fae but fell from grace over a sex scandal, and later spent several years in prison for defrauding his flock for millions of dollars.
