World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-02-27
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[0:02] New federal rules to make child [music]
[0:04] safety seats safe.
[0:07] >> Now you're in there nice and snug.
[0:08] >> And President Clinton back among
[0:10] friends. [music]
[0:14] And about as far from Washington as you
[0:17] can get.
[0:22] [music]
[0:23] From ABC.
[0:26] This is World News Tonight Saturday.
[0:29] >> Good evening. I'm Aaron Brown. [music]
[0:30] The Reverend Henry Lions, the head of
[0:33] one of the nation's most powerful black
[0:34] churches, was found guilty today of
[0:37] stealing on a very big scale. Reverend
[0:39] Lions, the president of the National
[0:41] Baptist Convention USA, was convicted of
[0:44] racketeering and grand theft. His
[0:46] codefendant and alleged mistress was
[0:49] acquitted in the case. Here's ABC's
[0:51] Peggy Wayer.
[0:55] When the jury began its deliberations,
[0:57] Henry Lions and his supporters gathered
[0:59] outside the courtroom and appealed to a
[1:02] higher power.
[1:03] >> In the mighty NAME OF JESUS, IN THE NAME
[1:04] OF GOD, PLEASE HAVE MERCY. LORD,
[1:07] >> BUT today there was no mercy.
[1:10] >> We the jury find the defendant is guilty
[1:12] of grand theft as charge.
[1:13] >> When the verdict was read, Lions was
[1:16] stonefaced. Prosecutors say Lions stole
[1:19] more than $200,000
[1:21] donated to the National Baptist
[1:23] Convention. money that was supposed to
[1:25] be used to rebuild black churches burned
[1:27] by arson. And they say along with his
[1:30] aid and alleged mistress Bernice
[1:32] Edwards, he swindled more than $4
[1:34] million from corporations to whom the
[1:37] couple sold fraudulent church membership
[1:39] lists.
[1:40] >> Instead of using a gun to go in and rob
[1:43] the victims,
[1:45] they use a pen. They use their word.
[1:49] Prosecutors say the pair spent the money
[1:51] on l