Jacksonville pastor who tried to evade more than $600K in federal taxes sentenced to 9 months in prison
A prominent Jacksonville pastor who admitted he tried to avoid paying more than half a million dollars in federal taxes was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison on Thursday.
Brian Carn Jr., 37, founder and pastor of Kingdom City Church and leader of Brian Carn Ministries and Healing House Ministries, pleaded guilty to a federal tax charge announced by the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors say Carn attempted to conceal more than $1.3 million in income after learning he owed the IRS more than $600,000.
“I did plead guilty because I’m taking responsibility,” Carn said. “At the end of the day, it’s my taxes, my name. It’s what the Lord entrusted me with, and I’m responsible to handle everything that he’s blessed me with integrity — and I didn’t.”
Court records show Carn initially reported earning about $1.4 million on his 2015 federal tax return. After learning the tax bill would exceed $600,000, investigators say Carn attempted to amend the return by falsely removing approximately $1.3 million in previously reported income.
According to the plea agreement, the IRS later placed liens on Carn’s properties in an effort to collect the unpaid taxes. Prosecutors say Carn then hired a new accountant and falsely reported his annual income as $120,000.
Investigators also allege Carn made several additional false representations, including:
●Failing to disclose a Cash App account used to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars to his personal bank account
●Omitting an investment account in his name
●Failing to report ownership of two vehicles
●Listing his monthly income as $0 from 2017 through 2020
“This is what God is doing in my life,” Carn said. “Identifying things in my life to make sure I have ministerial integrity, financial integrity, relationship integrity, friendship integrity and physical integrity.”
Carn faced a maximum sentence of three years in federal prison, and prosecutors requested that the judge sentence him to 18 months, saying he did not take the charges seriously.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2026...al-prison/
A prominent Jacksonville pastor who admitted he tried to avoid paying more than half a million dollars in federal taxes was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison on Thursday.
Brian Carn Jr., 37, founder and pastor of Kingdom City Church and leader of Brian Carn Ministries and Healing House Ministries, pleaded guilty to a federal tax charge announced by the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors say Carn attempted to conceal more than $1.3 million in income after learning he owed the IRS more than $600,000.
“I did plead guilty because I’m taking responsibility,” Carn said. “At the end of the day, it’s my taxes, my name. It’s what the Lord entrusted me with, and I’m responsible to handle everything that he’s blessed me with integrity — and I didn’t.”
Court records show Carn initially reported earning about $1.4 million on his 2015 federal tax return. After learning the tax bill would exceed $600,000, investigators say Carn attempted to amend the return by falsely removing approximately $1.3 million in previously reported income.
According to the plea agreement, the IRS later placed liens on Carn’s properties in an effort to collect the unpaid taxes. Prosecutors say Carn then hired a new accountant and falsely reported his annual income as $120,000.
Investigators also allege Carn made several additional false representations, including:
●Failing to disclose a Cash App account used to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars to his personal bank account
●Omitting an investment account in his name
●Failing to report ownership of two vehicles
●Listing his monthly income as $0 from 2017 through 2020
“This is what God is doing in my life,” Carn said. “Identifying things in my life to make sure I have ministerial integrity, financial integrity, relationship integrity, friendship integrity and physical integrity.”
Carn faced a maximum sentence of three years in federal prison, and prosecutors requested that the judge sentence him to 18 months, saying he did not take the charges seriously.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2026...al-prison/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
