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Government

Feb. 5, 2025

Gold investment rejected, religious group a 'sham,' cemeteries seized

Judge disallowed gold as an investment, declared Evergreen Ministries a sham, and placed four neglected Northern California cemeteries under state control due to alleged mismanagement and financial schemes by a Vallejo businessman. He said creating the religious organization was meant to save property tax for the cemeteries.

Kevin B. Frankel

A Solano County judge disallowed gold as an investment and ruled a religious group a fake as she ordered four deteriorated cemeteries in Marin, Alameda, Fresno and Solano counties under state control over management failures.

Judge Christine A. Carringer acted after the state's little-known Cemeteries and Funerals Bureau sought to place the properties into conservatorship after it learned the owner planned to transfer some $50 million in endowment funds to the tax-exempt Everg...

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