From the OC Register:
“He was always the ringleader. He always had complete power” within his church, said Stanley R. Bailey, a sociology professor at UC Irvine who specializes in religious studies. … “I think his downfall,” Bailey said, “was that the church was too much focused on him and not the ministry.”

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