Overview

• Michelle Brannon was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond with home incarceration in Northville, GPS monitoring, no contact with church members and a requirement to surrender her passport.
• The judge ordered her to ensure within 30 days that her housing and expenses are paid by someone unaffiliated with the Kingdom of God Global Church.
• After prosecutors sought an emergency stay, the court reaffirmed release conditions, saying they had not shown specific facts that she was a danger despite describing the church as cult-like.
• Court filings describe $500,000 in gold bars, $60,000 in cash, jewelry, designer goods, statues and nine luxury cars seized or documented, and say 57 people were found living in the Tampa Avila mansion where Brannon stayed.
• Prosecutors allege workers were coerced with threats, deprived of basic needs and pressured to produce sexually explicit material, as the 10-count case in the Eastern District of Michigan moves toward a Nov. 18 jury trial with a Nov. 3 court date set.