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Jaw-dropping details about alleged financial digressions at Trinity Broadcasting Network were made in a lawsuit filed Thursday - including the purchase of a $50 million jet through "a sham loan to an alter ego corporation" for the personal use of the Crouches; a $100,000 motor home purchased by Trinity as a mobile residence for Jan Crouch's dogs; "multiple residential estates" falsely reported as guest homes or church parsonages to avoid income disclosures;  meal expenses of up to a half-million dollars per company director; "personal chauffeurs compensated with Trinity funds under the guise of medical payments;" and "multiple cover-ups of sexual and criminal scandals."

The suit was filed in Orange County Superior Court by Joseph McVeigh against Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana (which does business as Trinity Broadcasting Network, the largest Christian broadcaster in the world), its International Christian Broadcasting arm, attorneys Davert & Loe (who do legal work for Trinity) and others.

McVeigh accuses Trinity and its lawyers of malicious prosecution in connection with a loan he received through Trinity companies.

So who is McVeigh? He is the uncle, by marriage, of Crouch granddaughter Brittany Koper --who sued Davert & Loe in federal court last month. Koper accused the world's largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to its principals -- and of firing her as its finance director, and beginning a campaign of "malicious retaliation" against her and her family (including McVeigh), for refusing to go along with the scheme.

Trinity paints a very different picture -- saying it was Koper and her husband who committed financial misdeeds at Trinity.

While Trinity has not been served "with this absurd and contrived suit, it is nothing more than a tabloid pleading," said Trinity attorney Colby M. May in an email. "No matter how hard Ms. Koper and her husband try to divert attention from their embezzlement and misappropriation of money, it won't work (regardless of how many Uncle McVeighs they marshal). As I previously reported to you in the context of Ms. Koper's suit against Davert & Loe (of which neither TBN and ICB are not parties), the outrageous, false, and unsubstantiated assertions about TBN and ICB, which are embellished in Mr. McVeigh's suit, are untrue. The claims are nevertheless being echo-chambered in the continuing vain attempt at diversion.

"I simply remind you of the following: (1) Ms. Koper has admitted several times to having embezzled and misappropriated money; (2) the IRS was months ago informed of Ms. & Mr. Koper's conduct, and they face considerable fines and excise by the IRS; (3) in recognition and admission of their misconduct and dishonest acts, Ms. & Mr. Koper have made partial restitution, but that stopped when they fled to New York, and (4) at no time have any charitable assets of the Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana Inc. or International Christian Broadcasters been 'diverted' to any director, period (except, of course, whatever Mr. & Ms. Koper diverted and embezzled).