Feds raid Christian charity

The FBI and IRS raided the Georgia headquarters of Angel Food Ministries, the Christian food charity, on Wednesday, according to published reports. Neither the FBI nor the IRS would say what agents were searching for at the home office of Angel Food. Ronn Torossian, a spokesman for Angel Food Ministries and president of New York-based […]

The FBI and IRS raided the Georgia headquarters of Angel Food Ministries, the Christian food charity, on Wednesday, according to published reports.

Neither the FBI nor the IRS would say what agents were searching for at the home office of Angel Food.

Ronn Torossian, a spokesman for Angel Food Ministries and president of New York-based 5W Public Relations, said the charity is fully cooperating with authorities.


“Angel Food Ministries believes that this is an investigation of an individual or individuals connected to the organization, and not regarding the ministry itself, its service to the public or its host sites in any way,” Torossian said by e-mail.

AFM is a multi-million dollar charity that sells discount grocies to anyone who needs it.

Late last month, Melissa Nann Burke of the York (Pa.) Daily Record (full disclosure: She’s my wife) reported that the Wingo family, which founded and runs AFM, had been awarded $2.5 million in compensation in one year. There’s no indication, however, that the raid was related to her story.

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