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(NewsNation) — After national and section instrumentality enforcement raided the location of Los Angeles pastor and endowment cause Robert Shinn, investigative writer Katie Joy says allegations leveled astatine Shinn are the "tip of the iceberg."
Joy joined "Banfield" connected Tuesday nighttime to sermon the raid of a spot part-owned by Shinn, who was the taxable of Netflix’s “Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult.”
A warrant was issued amid allegations of enactment trafficking, alleged taxation evasion, message fraud, wealth laundering and COVID-19 pandemic-related accusations, according to NewsNation affiliate KTLA.
"This is simply a agelong clip coming," Joy told NewsNation. "... This is conscionable the extremity of the iceberg, let's conscionable say."
At slightest six radical were seen detained with handcuffs, but constabulary did not instantly accidental whether anyone was arrested during the work of this warrant.
Joy said the raided spot was successful Tujunga, California, and houses members of his church, but Shinn lives astatine a spot successful Porter Ranch.
Shinn is the laminitis of and pastor for Shekinah Church, and founded a institution called 7M Films successful 2021 “to assistance societal media stars and TikTok dancers find jobs successful L.A.," per The Los Angeles Times.
No charges person been filed against Shinn, but Joy alleges Shinn "has for galore years tally a cult-like organization."
Joy besides alleges Shinn has changed his sanction and was antecedently accused of intersexual battle "by nary little than six women. Now Joy says, "his existent operations permission members of his religion much isolated.
"It's not conscionable dancers that are progressive successful this. There are invisible quality beings that are being labor-trafficked, sex-trafficked. They're having their full lives controlled. He is dangerous," Joy alleged.
KTLA's Lily Dallow contributed to this report.
