It claimed Driscoll and his chief elder Sutton Turner demonstrated a "pattern of racketeering activity" in how they ran the now-closed church by "soliciting, through the internet and the mail, contributions for designated purposes". It alleges they "fraudulently used significant portions of those designated contributions for other, unauthorized purposes".

The charges relate to allegations the church used funds donated for missionary work in India and Ethiopia for other causes and paid a company called ResultSource Inc to artifically boost the sales of Mark and Grace Driscoll's book on marriage in order to improve its position in the New York Times bestseller list. ...