Overview

• Brannon was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond with no contact with church members, passport surrendered, and a requirement to switch her Northville housing off church funding within 30 days.
• Court filings say agents found 57 workers living in a Tampa mansion with cramped conditions while Brannon had a private suite, and they describe thousands of sexually explicit images and videos allegedly solicited from female workers.
• Searches detailed about $500,000 in gold bars, $60,000 in cash, designer goods, foreign currency, and multiple luxury vehicles including Bentleys and Mercedes at properties tied to the organization.
• Prosecutors allege Brannon and co-defendant David Taylor ran call centers across Michigan, Florida, Texas and Missouri that solicited donations totaling about $50 million over the last decade.
• The case is being prosecuted in the Eastern District of Michigan, with the next hearing set for Nov. 3 and a jury trial scheduled for Nov. 18, and prosecutors say they are pursuing seizure of multiple properties linked to the group.