WAYCROSS, Ga., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- County officials in Georgia say evangelist Juanita Bynum's home is to be auctioned for failure to pay $32,007.56 in 2006 property taxes.
Ware County Tax Commissioner Steve Barnard said that Juanita Bynum Ministries, which holds the title, can avert the sale by paying up before Nov. 6, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The county placed a lien on the $4.5 million property near Waycross in June.
Bynum has been much in the headlines recently. She alleged that her estranged husband, Thomas Weeks, also a Pentecostal minister, physically assaulted her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel.
Weeks denies the claim.
Barnard said he told a Bynum representative that the sale would be canceled if he received $25,000 by Sept. 28 with the balance to be paid within two months. Instead, he received a check for $5,000.
The house would be auctioned on the courthouse steps.
