 Edward Morrissey pictured with Living Enrichment Center management team circa 1997. Edward Morrissey is the husband of Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey who pled guilty to money laundering and using funds from his wife's church, Living Enrichment Center, for personal expenses. Edward Morrissey was sentenced to federal prison for his crimes. He is slated for release in early 2007. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1553x1173, 250 KB)The above picture was first published in a 1997 church directory for Living Enrichment Center. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1553x1173, 250 KB)The above picture was first published in a 1997 church directory for Living Enrichment Center. ...
Mary Morrissey speaking before the Living Enrichment Center congregation, Wilsonville, Oregon, circa 2004. ...
Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ...
The entrance to Living Enrichment Center. ...
2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Edward Morrissey's marriage to Mary Manin
Mary Manin Boggs was the founder (along with her then-husband Haven Boggs) and senior minister of Living Enrichment Center, a New Thought "mega-church" in Wilsonville, Oregon with a congregation estimated at 2,000 to 5,000 members. Edward Morrissey married Mary Manin Boggs (thereafter known as Mary Manin Morrissey) in the mid-1990s, and shortly after the marriage Edward Morrissey became the CFO of the church. The entrance to Living Enrichment Center. ...
New Thought describes a set of religious ideas that developed in the United States during the late 19th century, originating with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. ...
Generally defined as a regional church whose weekly attendance exceeds 2,000 members. ...
Wilsonville is a city located in Clackamas County, Oregon. ...
CFO is usually short for Chief Financial Officer, but may also mean: Carrier frequency offset Ceramic fiber optics Chief Fire Officer Chief of Flight Operations Conselho Federal de Odontologia (cfo. ...
Both Morrisseys sued, only Edward sentenced to prison In the summer of 2004, Living Enrichment Center closed amid a multi-million-dollar financial scandal. Though both Edward Morrissey and Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey were listed as defendants in many lawsuits filed by former members of the congregation, it was Edward Morrissey who eventually pled guilty to money laundering and using church funds for the personal expenses of himself and his wife. Edward Morrissey was sentenced to federal prison. To this day, Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey claims that she had no knowledge of her husband's illegal use of church funds. Edward Morrissey has claimed the same. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...
Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ...
- "In fairness to Mary Morrissey, it's not implausible that she was mislead by her husband about the church's finances – and it's worth noting that she maintains some real support among the folks who got burned.... But those details come back to suggest other possibilities: 1) that we're dealing with a true cult, one that was devoted to the enrichment and aggrandizement of Mary Morrissey until it collapsed (sub-clause on #1 includes the possibility that Ed's under her spell); 2) a more practical 'conspiracy' that assumes that Edward Morrissey took the fall because his wife's the one who can go on the speaking tours to pay off creditors." – Blogger "The Big Forehead" wrote in his March, 2005 article titled The Intersection of Spirituality and Fleecing
Edward Morrissey has been serving time at Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island in Central California since early 2005. He is slated for release to a halfway house in August of 2006. Morrissey's term is scheduled to end in February of 2007. A blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. ...
Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island (FCI Terminal Island) is a medium-security prison for both men & women (separate facilities) located on Reservation Point on Terminal Island in Los Angeles. ...
A halfway house is a term for a drug rehabilitation center or sex offender center where drug users or sex offenders respectively are allowed to move more freely than in a correctional center but are still monitored by staff and/or law enforcement. ...
See also This is a list of religious leaders or founders who have been convicted or indicted of serious crimes. ...
Bank of Credit and Commerce International Clearstream Tom DeLay Enron Corporation Hells Angels Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez Edward Morrissey Ndrangheta Manuel Noriega Parmalat Augusto Pinochet Carlos Salinas Shell corporation Jim Whittington See also money-laundering Category: Commercial crimes ...
External links - Edward Morrissey's entry at California Bureau of Prisons website
- Religion News Blog index of articles regarding Edward Morrissey
- "Intersection of Spirituality and Fleecing" blog entry by Jeff Bull regarding the plea bargain struck with Ed and Mary Morrissey wherein Mary Morrissey did not serve time in prison.
Corporate Securities findings regarding Morrissey investigation - Complaint
- Consent Judgment
- Covenent
Willamette Week articles about Living Enrichment Center - Forgive Us Our Debts? A local megachurch finds itself in mega-trouble.
- The Prophet Margin (cover story). Mary Morrissey's megachurch is $20 million in debt. Can she pull off a resurrection?
- Praise the Lord and Pass the popcorn
- Forgive Us Our Debts ... and lead us into bankruptcy
- The Enriching Quiz: Megachurch finances still puzzling.
- Nostradamus-Style Reporting
- "By Mary's Side" (letter to the editor) by Anne Bryant
- "A Course In Mary" (letter to the editor) by Andrew Parodi
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