Horrible, horrible, horrible!! There's fraud cooking at AZ's second largest church! Yes, CCV (ccvonline.com) Senior Pastor and phony "Christian" Dr. Don Wilson and equally phony senior staffers Scott Chandler and Jon Edmiston, have been notified IN WRITING by me numerous times FOR OVER ONE YEAR that a formal, known, member of CCV church, fraudster, Phoenix lawyer Edward Maldonado, a former Maricopa County prosecutor and current Maricopa County Attorney (who is so unsuccessful that he still seeks private clients (to screw over) on the side through his lawyer ads on the CCV church website, ccvonline.com) has acted in a highly unethical and in fact CRIMINAL MANNER with me, a former CCV attendee-member (until this ripoff happened to me and nobody responsed or cared and I stopped attending). I hired MR MALDONADO after seeing and trusting his "honesty" church legal services ad in the buisness section of ccvonline.com and Maldonado completely screwed me over in "representing" me. Yes, Maldonado demanded money orders upfront from me before he would start any work, then once he cashed them, he failed to return calls or emails, abandoned my case just days before my trial forcing me to represent myself, to my horror, (but since it was a bogus case to begin with I secured a complete dismissal of my case and I had and still have no criminal record), then in violation of AZ State Bar ethics rules Malfonado failed to return my fees, then he refused to return my written demand for return of my fees, then to get even with me for demanding back my money, he maliciously wrote and mailed a BAD-NSF check to an incorrect out of state address days before my AZ trial, which I was in AZ preparing for, so I would have to spend a two days and a thousand bucks to drive out of state to retreive it to cash it to hire another replacement lawyer, which he knew I would have to do. Very Christ-like behavior on his part. But the check was not there when I drove out that time or the next time. Two weeks later the check arrived and was bad-NSF ON THREE SEPARATE ATTEMPTS AT HIS BANK -B OF A. Writing a BAD-NSF CHECK - IS A FELONY IN MARICOPA COUNTY AZ . But the worst part is, when I notified Maldonado that he had written a bad check and per statute, had 15 days to make it good before fees, costs and interest were allowed, he did nothing. HE FAILED AND REFUSED TO EVER MAKE HIS BAD NSF-CHECK GOOD WITH THE PENALTIES, FEES AND INTEREST AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW - FOR OVER ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS!!! AND AFTER TONS OF NOTICES!!! AND WHEN I SENT MY WRITTEN COMPLAINT AND WARNING TO FAILED PHONY SENIOR PASTOR DON WILSON AND HIS INCOMPETENT LEGAL STAFFERS SO THAT THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN TO OTHER CHURCH MEMBERS, INCLUDING PDF COPIES OF THE EXACT COURT-LEVEL DOCUMENT: A SWORN, NOTARIZED, WITNESSED BANK OF AMERICA AFFIDAVIT PROVING MALDONADO'S BAD-NSF CHECK, ALONG WITH NOTICE THAT HE HAD NEVER MADE THE CHECK GOOD AS REQUIRED BY LAW - WHAT DID THESE PHONY FRAUDSTER CHRISTIAN LEADERS, THESE DELUSIONAL MEN OF GOD DO? - Aaaabsolutely nothing. I received NO response. NO apology that they were sorry that I was screwed over financially due to a fraudster with an ad on their church website. NO offer to take his CCVONLINE.COM ad down and call him in for an explanation OR MEETING TO EXPLAIN HIS SIDE OF THE STORY TO ME THE VICTIM AS IS REQUIRED IN THE BIBLE. No offer to call the police. No offer to make him provide restitution as is required in THE BIBLE. Nothing. NADA. ZERO. And this made me absolutely sick not just for myself, but even more for the image and reputation of Christianity. What if this had happened to a non-believer, a non-Christian. They would NEVER become a believer. They would likely NEVER set foot in a church again. I thought that if this, CCV, one of the largest Christian churchs in the nation, which claims that it is on the cutting-edge of Christian leadership in the Church today, we are in deep do0-doo. So - shame, shame, shame on these selfish, fraudster, phony "Christian" leaders. They are no such thing. I guess they were all too busy counting all the tithing and donations and moving it all into some offshore account so they be able to live in absolute luxury after the whole CCV-racket thing crashes. Vile. Makes me want to puke. If you are a Christian you likely know that Christ, the main God-human-face in Christianity, held a special contempt for these exact types of religious people - the phony, fake, two-faced religious leaders of his time - and in fact he called them various things from "brood of vipers" to "whitewashed tombs" - indicating the sickening stench of their phoney pious -perfect outside yet corrupt, rotten, filthy and maggot infested inside - refering of course not to their colons but their hearts. Jesus rebuke of phony, hypocritical folks is the one place in all of the New Testament where Jesus gets really, really angry. Anger not at prostitutes, or homosexuals, or Nancy Pelosi, or liberals, or peacemakers like Jimmy Carter, or other religions, but SERIOUS anger for the corrupt, phony two-faced, religious-church leaders of his day and inside the temples of his own religion. Yes, Dr. Don Wilson - Jesus had a story tailored just for you! He knew you were coming to screw over the body and he wanted to say something about you 2000+ years in advance. SO now what? If this story and this failed church leadership sickens you as it has me, you know what to do. Tell a friend that as much as you like CCV's fancy kitchen and gourmet food, expensive flagstone patios and fountains and firelacces, great kids programs, unique hilltop cross, and luxurious setting - your soul is far more important than being seen inside some pretty yet morally bankrupt campus. Vote these evil-dooers out with your feet and head over to another church. Please tell a friend what you now know about CCV.