Why God Told Me To Pocket Investors’ $1.3M – Pastor

A Colorado pastor, Eli Regalado has insisted that God instructed him to pocket investors’ $1.3 million.

The US Pastor and his wife, Kaitlyn, are facing a civil lawsuit alleging they flogged the so-called INDXcoin to fellow Christians in Colorado, with divine guarantees investors would become rich.

According to the complaint filed by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, investigators found 300 people sank $3.2 million into something Regalado and his wife insisted God was backing.

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That was even though the couple, who run an online church, had no experience in cryptocurrency, said a press release from the Colorado Division of Securities, the state body that regulates the securities market.

Faced with the fraud allegations, Regalado doubled down on his message of a God-given mission, and even confessed to using the cash for some home improvements — which he said was also an instruction from above.

“So the charges are that Kaitlyn and I have pocketed $1.3 million, and I just want to come out and say that those charges are true,” he said in a video posted to a forum for INDXcoin investors.

“Out of that 1.3, half a million dollars went to the IRS and a few $100,000 went to a home remodel that the Lord told us to do.”

The couple allegedly also spent funds on a gamut of luxury items, including a Range Rover, jewelry, swanky handbags and snowmobile trips, the complaint states.

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Facing the legal action, which was filed in Denver last week, Regalado conceded there might have been some communication issues on his hotline to God, though he was still holding out hope that the Big Man would come through in the end.

“We took God at his word and sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit,” the US Pastor said.

“Either I misheard God… or God is still not done with this project,” he said.

“What we’re praying for… is that God is going to work a miracle in the financial sector. He is going to bring a miracle into INDXcoin.”