Bishop Eddie Long Scandal: 'Private Dick' To Probe Accusers (Photos)

Bishop Eddie Long Scandal: ‘Private Dick’ To Probe Accusers (Photos)

Written by HipHopRX Denise on October 2nd, 2010 in Gossip/Rumors, Photos, People - U.S., News.

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Photo of Private Investigator TJ Ward - Bishop Eddie Long Sex Scandal Case
News was revealed that a ‘private dick’ by the name of TJ Ward, a very high profile investigator, has been hired to probe the Bishop Eddie Long sex abuse scandal, as a Saturday prayer service online stream took place at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

The four civil lawsuits, brought on by four different young men who attended New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and were apart of the Longfellows Youth Academy as teens, claim that Bishop Eddie Long coerced them into a sexual relationship after turning of legal age. The suits also claims Long lured them with gifts such as jewelry, cars, luxury hotel rooms, trips, jet flights and more.

During the first week of the allegation, pictures surfaced of Bishop Eddie Long which he took with his cellphone wearing spandex (workout attire) and one with tight moc workout shirt. The following week, Bishop Eddie Long spoke for the first time during a Sunday service, which was a couple days later followed by plaintiffs Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande who publicly spoke separately for the first time after being tracked, as reported on www.HipHopRx.com.

Now with high profile private investigator TJ Ward, the investigator who participated in the Natalee Halloway disappearance in Aruba, you’ll never know which way this entire sex abuse scandal may turn.

According to TJ Ward, he was asked to join the investigation by Bishop Eddie Long’s legal team. TJ Ward is expected to go as deep as he can go and that’s into the four accusers public and private lives and find any data he can dig up on them to see if this lawsuit is even valid and what are they trying to gain from it.

“These are young individuals and these are very serious allegations and we take it very serious also… this is a very serious case and we’re not going to bring our case before the media,” stated TJ Ward to CBS Atlanta in a TV interview.

TJ Ward goes on to say that he’s going to look into the attacks against Bishop Eddie Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

Developing…

Check out the pictures including mug shot photos of Bishop Eddie Long sex scandal accusers, alleged victims Anthony Flagg and Maurice Robinson, plus Spencer Legrande and Jamal Parris:

Check out the cellphone photos of Bishop Eddie Long.. these are the reported cell phone pictures that were allegedly sent to his accusers:

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19 Responses to “Bishop Eddie Long Scandal: ‘Private Dick’ To Probe Accusers (Photos)”

choirboy Says:
October 2nd, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Maybe, just maybe, God is trying to tell you something Eddie Long. Maybe God is trying to tell the Black church something, too. Maybe God is trying to tell our nation something.
Regardless the message God has for Eddie, the church, and nation — my pastor Eddie Long is capital G U I L T Y. Now, that’s what God told me!
Sherry Says:
October 2nd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Why are these young men being probed, when everything they had was given to them by Eddie Long? How is he going to confirm the attempted suicide of Jamal Parris? Who is going to dig into the physiological turmoil the effects that was done on these young guys, and now their mothers for the guilt and pain they must feel for not being able to protect their sons from the most powerful male figure in their lives that was showering them with gifts, paying for their college tuition, cars, and way of life, including the mothers?

Eddie Long has the deep pockets for this type of investigation and further humiliation of these young men. He has it backward, he is Goliath and these young men feel like David with no stones.

Peace!
theSmellofhisBody Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 am
So to protect himself, eLong got somebody digging up dirt on this boys…

Find anything these boys may have ever done into the public to embarrass them.
And I’m sure finding dirt on their parents, friends and associates too.

This is typically what they put rape victims through
This is nothing more than a Veiled Threat !

UJusRong
EdDLong
john Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 12:13 am
@sherry

Please Please study the bible so you will know that he was saying he is like david-the anointed of God facing a goliath type situation or demonic attack.

Thanks boo
me Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 12:21 am
your allusions (’dick’, probe, etc.), in this situation, are disgusting and shameful .. and neither clever nor funny.
Whatev Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 12:31 am
They want to find dirt on them so they seem less-credible. It won’t work. Seeing Jamal and Spencer speak confirmed what i already knew. Eddie Long is guilty of these crimes/transgressions.Sherry, I concur. Eddie is Goliath.
ARL Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 2:55 am
He can use biblical analogies, hire PI’s, and spend ALL of his millions…the bottom line is, when he got up before his congregation he DID NOT address the allegations AT ALL. He put up a smoke screen talking about storms, and Katrina, and victims to emotionally manipulate his congregation into thinking that HE is the victim. And it worked! They bought it, hook, line and sinker! Because no one wants to be believe that they let somebody make a fool out of them and and they gave them money to do it. Any person who stands for what EL claimed he stood for would’ve OUT RIGHT SAID I AM NOT GAY NOR DID I DO THESE ACTS WITH THESE YOUNG MEN. He was in his church not at the courthouse. If there was any place he should’ve felt safe saying that, then certainly you would think that it would be his church in front of HIS LOYAL FOLLOWERS. WAKE UP PEOPLE! OPEN YOUR EYES! I pray that the truth prevails. One thing God hates is hypocrites. God is a good of justice as well as love. I pray the truth prevails. PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. They may not have the ‘deep pockets’ EL has, but prayer can do what money can’t!
Sherry Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 3:56 am
@John Believe me I know my Bible very well, this is why I said what I said what I did. I know that David was the only brave one to face the giant Goliath with a sling shot and stones, he finally killed Goliath with the fifth stone with the holy spirit of God.

If you read what I said carefully, I said in this case Eddie Long is Goliath and these young men are David with NO stones. Eddie Long is using his deep pockets to scare & intimidate these young men & their families, because everything they did have was provided by him.

Peace!
MIZBimmer Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 5:23 am
Digging up dirt??? O please give me a break…They are using this tatic to scare those young men into giving in. If I were Eddie Longs Legal team this is the last thing I would have announced. Boy are they making themselves look stupid. This is the oldest trick in the book and my profession is not even in law. This just lets everybody know that they have nothing to dispute these alliegations because its true… I just wondering what can Ward find? Eddie started with these young men when they were as young as 15. These young men came to the Church which is suppose to be “A place of Refuge from the storms of life” (that alone shows they have some morals). Instead they met this monster.

Where the investigation needs to start is from the time Eddie got a hold of them until he had no more use for them. That’s what needs to be investigated!!! Everybody can see and will see through this one. If Eddie’s team wants to do something constructive why not allow Eddie Long to go on CNN and tell his side of the story and answer questions about it if is as innocent as he claims he is.

Choirboy - You are one of the ones that Eddie Long made a complete fool out of last Sunday….The words he spoke “I’m not a perfect man but I’m not the man the televsion is portraying me to be” was a bunch of crap…Why didn’t he say” I did not have any sexual contact with these young men, its a lie, its a lie, its a lie and I can prove it”…He didn’t say it because he can’t…It not a lie, those young men are telling the truth…

Bishop if you are reading this…You need to come out of the Pulpit right now, not tomorrow but right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
geminaye Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 am
The bible is clear; you don’t have to go far to find clarity from God; The Lord rewarded me according to ny righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.” Psalm 18: 20 & 21. Simply put, if you do whats right, you won’t have to deal with a whole lotta mess. Job was alright, and suffered because the devil was testing him, God allowed that test and Job passed it. But the evidence indicates the opposite for B.E.L. There are those who are in complete denial and are unwilling to face even the possibility of guilt. But this turn of events with the investigator leaves the situation in greater question.

There is nothing to be gained by this folly. David when confronted by Nathan the Prophet, manned up about his involvement in the death of Bathsheba’s husband and all that happened there. Nathan said: “Thou art the man”, David said: “I have sinned”. The global church body needs a full and unequivocal “I HAVE SINNED” from B.E.L. and a complete halt to this investigative nonsense.
Jacqueline Alexis Hill Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 am
You may recall a 2004 Los Angeles Times revelation that Paul Crouch of TBN denied he had homosexual tendencies but paid $425,000 to silence Enoch Lonnie Ford, another onetime male TBN employee who’d said he and the wealthy televangelist had a sexual affair.
anonymous Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
all I have to say is, four young men seperately coming forward about the same allegations, all having seperate lawsuits which go into detailed events, and all corroborating the same type of behavior, somewhere, somehow i smell a liar. It is hard to say that four people are all lying about the same things, and even much more harder to believe given the evidence. They have an old sayin that says ” If it isn’t so, it’s almost so”. In regards to bishop Eddie’s behavior, I am sure that each one of us, being a person who was so opposing to gay marriages and given the power and inflence he has in people’s lives, I guarantee that most will agree that he is not being truthful because he has so much at stake to lose. Number one, his congregation which are the funders of his lavish lifestyle, therefore he says anything to make their emotions tick to keep them; hence his statements about him being david against goliath. He knows that to tap into the emotions of his congregation he has to blame this whole scandal on ‘the devil’ trying to bring him down. Bishop Long knows hat once he admits to the allegations that his career of being a pastor would be over. On the other hand, how a can someone who is so aware of God’s heart and mind be so bold to stand in his pulpit and lie infront of God’s people? Do he have any fear of the Lord? Personally I would be scared of getting striked by lightening or something.
Marissa Says:
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Stop the cash flow…so the truth can be revealed.

No more tithes
No more offerings
No more donations
No more support
No more applause

At this point the members are being used. All the money will not go to his defense team. Every service for now on…is all about the money.

All the media is talking about the the Black American churches…but guess what? All the money this predominately Black church has raised will all go to the white man because his defense is all white americans…something to think about.

By the way, it don’t matter what dream team is in place, it has no power over GOD when he is ready to take the blinders off of people eyes. If this is the season for BEL to be revealed, then no demon in hell can stop the plan of GOD.
Also, in cases where facts are apparent, then no one is judging. Facts don’t change, but lies do. Therefore, people stop repeating “Thou shalt no judge”.
alterBOY Says:
October 5th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Eddie Long. Ms Gurl, Stop the Drama !!!

These Kids ARE TELLING THE TRUTH!!

Stop the nastiness all that Jeri curl oil running on them kids .like a old fool
WHERE MY DEACONS AT?
ARKEEB Says:
October 5th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
EDDIE LONG SHOULD BE A SHAME OF HIMSELF USING THE WORD OF GOD TO JUSTIFY HIS WRONG DURING. I FEEL SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HIS CHURCH, THEY ARE WORSHIPING HIM INSTEAD OF GOD. EDDIE LONG DID NOT DIE ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS. JESUS CHRIST DID.
chuk Says:
October 5th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Attacking the victims, again. I sincerely hope Eddie Long gets what’s coming to him.
He did not deny the men’s allegations, but he’s about to attack their credibility and ruin their lives, not to mention the people in their lives..

I agree, stop the cash flow. Mr. Long doesn’t need more money. Support your local church, those that truly give their all to the Lord.
Why is he still getting support? Do we really even know how much of that money is going back to the people instead of his own pockets?

Why on earth would you be sending those pictures to those guys? You that proud of your physique? Makes no sense.

Bring on the lie detectors.. Maury pls
ElaineOO Says:
October 6th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
How do you know who’s the vicitm? Where is your proof?
Betty Says:
October 22nd, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Being a former member of a congregation where the pastor sexually abused women, I see some of the same signs of branwashing going on in Eddie Long’s minstry that I saw in my former church. The people who are trying to put the blame on the victims are conditioned to believe that the pastor and New Birth are under attack by the devil. They drag out other ministers from all over the country to come in and convince the members that this could not possibly be true even in the midst of overwhelming evidence. The people believe whatever the ministers tell them. They can’t even see that it’s not normal for an adult minister to visit a teenage boy alone everyday or to send pictures of himself to a teenage boy in order to show off his body. THIS IS NOT NORMAL FOLKS!!! Please have pity on the members because they have been brainwashed and don’t even realize it. I know because I was the same way. I just didn’t want to believe that my pastor could do such a thing. I felt it was an attack on the church and the man of God. But it wasn’t. It was God forcing the truth to come out. Thank God that I woke up and listened to God and stopped listening to the spin that the pastor and those in leadership were trying to put out to contol the people and keep the ministry from collapsing. The church is full of homosexual ministers & worship leaders. But ministers have preached against it for so long and convinced their members that homosexuality is a sin that they can’t come out without losing a lot. Pray for everyone involved, but people please open your eyes to the obvious. You don’t need a picture of Eddie Long involved in a sexual act to know that something inappropriate was going on. I’m not talking about the being a homosexual. I’m talking about coersing young vulnerable men into having sex. I really don’t care if Long is a homosexual but I do care that he abused others.
anonymous Says:
November 1st, 2010 at 10:57 am
Its been a lot said on the subject of BEL, the 4 young men and the church, but after all is said and done we don’t know if these things are true. We must support the young men that have made these alegations and also support BEL until the truth is found out. The only people who know what happened are the people that are envolved. It does no good for BEL or the 4 young men to speculate on this matter. What we need to do is pray for the members of BEL’s church(s) and those young men!

It is not just the mega churches taking in millions of dollars a year, look at how a lot of these BLACk preachers live; can’t call them pastors, because they are not envolved with their members anymore; just a small group of inner circle folks get their attention and those are the folks they pastor. but they take money from anything that is moving.

What do you think Jesus thinks of the BLACK CHURCH?