Self-styled ‘prophet’ Brian Carn Jr. of Kingdom City Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for tax evasion, mere months after insisting he wouldn’t serve any time.
We’ve covered Carn and his antics before in our posts:
Three months ago, Carn, 37, pled guilty to obstructing the IRS’s efforts to collect his tax debts. According to a press release from the Justice Department:
In 2016, Carn filed his tax return for 2015 that properly reported that he earned more than $1.4 million in income and owed more than $600,000 in taxes. He did not, however, pay those taxes to the IRS and instead came up with a scheme to deceive the IRS.
A few months later, when the IRS attempted to collect his unpaid taxes — including by placing liens on his properties and attempting to levy his bank accounts — Carn amended his 2015 tax return and falsely removed nearly $1.3 million in income that he previously reported. To accomplish this, Carn hired a new accountant and provided him with a fictitious, backdated employment agreement that provided for an annual salary of $120,000 and an annual parsonage allowance of $24,000.
Carn did this for multiple years, drastically underreporting his income,
In fact, a mere 13 days after pleading guilty, Carn signed a tax return saying that he earned a mere $17,425. However, that same year, while seeking to qualify for a loan to purchase a $215,000 Mercedes-Benz, (with $4,312.48 monthly payment) he reported to his creditors that he made nearly 15 times that.
Furthermore, despite not being married and having no record of having children, even appearing on Willie Moore Jr.’s podcast to insist he has none, Carn paid out $14,600 in child support payments in 2024, the same year he reported $17k in income, according to a sentencing memorandum.
Carn has been dogged for years with accusations of living a sexually illicit lifestyle. It is unclear if the child support payments are for one child or multiple children.
