Internal church documents show how the church apparently made plans to frame Mayor Gabriel Cazares in a staged hit-and-run while also starting BS rumors about him having an affair to undermine his fight against them. It also showed church operatives seemingly planting spies in the state attorney’s office, in the Chamber of Commerce, and the local newspaper, because if bad fiction is your entire belief system, everything you do is going to sound like an overdramatized, terrible movie.
The city and church were battling each other in court for years, until the church ultimately won and were left to do as they pleased because, since then, they’ve acquired a massive stake in the city’s downtown property, showing no sign of slowing down. Most alarming is that current city leaders didn’t even know the full extent of property purchases made by church parishioners until the Tampa Bay Times showed them their review of more than a thousand deeds and business records back in 2019.
Many of the properties bought by the church (through cash, mostly) weren’t on the market and were purchased for double the price of the property value. A lot of those properties also stand deserted, and the City Council said they have no idea what the church has in mind because they’re so notoriously secretive about their operations.
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