Self-styled “prophet” Brian Carn Jr. of Kingdom City Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, is still insisting that he won’t be going to jail next month despite being sentenced to nine months in prison for tax evasion and ordered to self-surrender.
Five 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.
With the guilty plea, Carn was ordered to self-report to prison to begin serving his sentence within 45 days, but he was granted an extra month because of his father’s poor health. This makes August 17 the final day he must turn himself in.
Despite this impending reality, Carn, who also recently shared that they have been evicted from their church after half a year of non-payment (see below), is delusional and defiant, insisting that he will not be spending any time in jail.
As a matter of record, Carn is a money grubbin’ false teacher and his congregants are willingg participants, epitomizing having itching ears.
Notably, recent revelations revealed that 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.
