Carva Lee White, an itinerant preacher and convicted felon, has been implicated by federal authorities in an arson scheme.
An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, says White set fire to a church in Leavenworth where he was working as a music director. White intended to embezzle the insurance money, according to the indictment.
White, the musically gifted son of a preacher, has a long history of trying to make money in ways that do not involve honest toil. In 2001, he went to prison on a bank-fraud charge. He came to our attention in 2006, when children representing his ministry were selling candy by wading into busy intersections.
A preacher White worked with after his release from prison told me that White used the money raised from the candy sales to support himself. "The fund-raising is a crap of bull," the minister, Mike Hardy, said. "It's to help him."
I first encountered White's candy crew at 63rd Street and Swope Parkway. One of the children said the money was being raised to replace a church that had burned down.
White's "ministry," had, in fact, been touched by fire. In 2005, after being run out of Springfield, Missouri, White was using a barn in nearby Aurora that burned down.
Fire inspectors were not able to determine the cause of the blaze. White suspected arson. "I was a black man in a white town, bottom line," he told me in an interview that took place in a house off Swope Parkway.
The Leavenworth church received approximately $110,000 from its insurer. White faces three counts of mail fraud, two counts of using arson to commit a federal felony and one count of making a false statement.
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I grew up with Mr. White and his siblings sorry to hear that a man that was gifted would take and throw away a gift that GOD had given. God Bles the Church and its Congregation for everyone that says they know Jesus Knows Jesus so to all that will encounter with this story I ask that you seek Jesus and make God Your Savour.
he deserved everything he got coming playing with God and how he did my g ma was real cruel but i know he is getting butt fuckked now .....Now who the pusyy yo ass hole hahahahaha
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