Under watch: Oral Roberts’ son Richard, Brooke Astor’s son Anthony Marshall, Trial lawyer Richard F. Scruggs and Lawyer Stephen G. Yagman
Richard Roberts, son of school founder and televangelist Oral Roberts, who resigned from his position as president of Oral Roberts University. In a lawsuit filed by three dismissed university professors Roberts was accused of misspending university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, including allegations of a $39,000 shopping spree for Roberts' wife, Lindsay Roberts, a $29,000 trip on the university jet to the Bahamas for one of their daughters, and the purchase of a stable of horses for their children. The resignation came on the heels of an amended lawsuit, which included an internal ministry report titled "Scandal Vulnerability Assessment," documenting allegations of misconduct by the Roberts family. Among other indications that alcoholism is heavily involved somewhere, the detailed account ...
