FROM A LIFE IN GLITTER TO THE ZELIG OF AWFUL

AIRMAIL - THE ZELIG OF AWFUL

This well written article full of engaging details by Spike Carter from 2024 is about Scott Thorson at age sixty-five but what came before including his role in drug dealing cocaine in the 1980's. It includes a photo as Scott when he worked for a homeless mission in Florida. He was tracked down and shot and was in a coma for six months.

Excerpt:   Amazingly, Scott started making a name for himself on the preaching circuit and developed a huge following, raising hundreds of thousands for the church while traveling around the country on private jets to sermonize onstage at all the biggest God-fearing events. When the feds eventually saw his mug on TV, televangelizing with Billy Graham and Pat Robertson, they were livid. Scott was keeping the opposite of a low profile and making it literally impossible for them to protect him from Nash and his cronies.

"The phoniness was getting to me, though," says Scott. "At least selling drugs to addicts was a more honest racket thank hawking Jesus to yokels with these grifters." Scott was still in witness protection, so he says her began clandestinely running drugs with the cartels - connections made while working with Nash - under the fed's noses.  ...