Vendors awaiting payment from the Crystal Cathedral Ministries will see a check in the mail during Christmas week after a deal was struck in court Friday.
Attorneys for the Rev. Robert H. Schuller and the creditors in the case agreed to make payments to both Schuller and the creditors while the minister's appeal to a judge's ruling winds its way through court.
Schuller will get the $615,625 he was awarded last month by Judge Robert Kwan of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles. The Crystal Cathedral Ministries in Garden Grove will receive $500,000. And about 1,000 creditors will get their payments in full – about $12.7 million – but not the accumulated interest....