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When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was
as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past
life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative
reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as
his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity,
the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss.
Thompson’s charity’s addresses were just maildrops, his members
nonexistent, and his past a black hole. Yet, somehow, the Commander
had stood for photos with President George W. Bush, Senator John
McCain, and other political luminaries. The USNVA, it turned out,
was a phony charity where Thompson used pricey telemarketers, savvy
lawyers, and political allies to swindle tens of millions from
well-meaning donors. After Testerman’s story revealed that the
nonprofit was a sham, the Commander went on the run. U.S. Marshals
took up the hunt in 2011 and found themselves searching for an
unnamed identity thief who they likened to a real-life Jason
Bourne. When finally captured in 2012, Thompson was carrying
multiple IDs and a key to a locker that held nearly $1 million in
cash. But, who was he? Eventually, investigators discovered he was
John Donald Cody, a Harvard Law School graduate and former U.S.
Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s on
theft charges and for questioning in an espionage probe. As
Cody’s decades as a fugitive came to an end, he claimed his
charity was run at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency.
After reporting on the story for CNBC’s American Greed in 2014,
Daniel M. Freed dug into Cody’s backstory—uncovering new
information about his intelligence background and the evolution of
his con. Watch a book trailer at callmecommander.net.
You can have a profitable business based upon Biblical principles,
without sacrificing integrity, honesty, or profitability. There are
certain principles that when applied work universally to prosper a
business. These principles were put in to place by God for His
creation to use. God designed this world to best operate under His
laws. When we follow His laws things tend to go well. When we break
His laws we get broken. Most secular business books and self-help
books fall short because they extol the strengths of men and do not
go far enough in giving the glory to God. Some have even taken
God's principles and taught them as if they were their own or have
given credit to some unnamed higher power. God laws are for the
seen and the unseen or what we call the physical and the spiritual.
Even non-Christians experience blessings when they apply God's
principles in both the physical and spiritual realm. The sad part
is they don't give Him glory when things go well. (But when things
go bad you often hear them taking His name in vain.) We want to
encourage Christian Business Owners to boldly give credit to our
God who put these laws into place, who created us with the amazing
abilities and capabilities of our mind, soul, and body and who
gives us the very breath we breathe to live and prosper. One
amazing thing about our God is His great mercy. Even when the world
does not give Him the glory He deserves, He still blesses them.
Jesus said that the Father sends His rain on the just and on the
unjust. And Paul the Apostle tells us that it is the kindness of
God that leads men to repentance. Our goal as Christian Business
Owners is to first and foremost glorify God in our life and
business. We choose to acknowledge Him in all our ways.
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