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AFM, former board members in court Friday
Published June 17, 2009
WALTON COUNTY — A hearing is scheduled for this week in the dispute between Angel Food Ministries and two former board members.
Superior Court Judge John Ott is scheduled to hear the case of Tony Prather of Walton County and Craig Atnip of Texas against Good Hope-based non-profit Angel Food Ministries and the Wingo family which runs the charitable food distributor.
During the 9 a.m. Friday hearing, Prather and Atnip must show why a motion to dismiss their suit, filed by AFM, must not be enforced, according to court documents.
Prather and Atnip sued the ministry and its founders, pastors Joe Wingo and Linda Wingo, and their sons, Andy Wingo and Wes Wingo, in February claiming they misappropriated funds from the $140 million-a-year ministry and asked the courts to appoint someone else to run the ministry in their place.
During a Superior Court hearing March 6, both parties announced an agreement to settle the case had been reached.
The agreement, in part, required the Wingos to give up use of their ministry credit cards, transferred ownership of a jet owned by Joe Wingo to the ministry, and required a forensic audit of the ministry be conducted. In return, Prather and Atnip agreed to allow the Wingos to continue in the their leadership positions with the ministry and agreed to resign from the ministry’s board of directors.
Since then both sides have accused the other of trying to change the terms of the settlement, and the agreement has fallen apart.
Agents with the FBI and representatives of the IRS searched the Broad Street offices of Angel Food and the Alcovy Street offices of Good Hope Foods, owned and operated by Andy Wingo, while executing search warrants Feb. 11. Federal authorities copied computer files and removed documents during their search of the two Monroe locations.
A federal grand jury has met on numerous occasions regarding the case, but no indictments have been handed down yet.
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