MN Teen Challenge, Michele Bachmann's Sink for Laundered Money, Promotes Faith Healing

While at the State Fair this year, Minnesota Teen Challenge Executive Director, Rich Scherber, claimed that a Teen Challenge resident with cirrhosis of the liver was "cured" by "God".



Minnesota Teen Challenge is well known to Dump Bachmann regulars. As Karl Bremer put it.

Michele Bachmann tried to protect her image by donating a campaign contribution from convicted money-launderer and Tom Petters associate Frank Vennes Jr. this month after Vennes’ homes were raided in connection with the $3 billion dollar Petters financial fraud investigation. But as it turns out, Bachmann donated the money to Minnesota Teen Challenge, a faith-based evangelical recovery program where Vennes served on the board of directors as recently as February 2008, and which may lose millions of dollars in investments that Vennes’ is alleged to have helped steer to Petters’ companies.

In other words, the $9,200 Bachmann donated to Teen Challenge—the same amount as Vennes and his wife, Kimberly, donated to Bachmann’s campaign on June 30—essentially went from the pocket of one Vennes pal to the pocket of another.

Teen Challenge later returns Michele Bachmann's Vennes money, because they were concerned about "Dirty Money."