A.G. Gancarski
On Friday at 9 a.m. at the Duval County Courthouse, the latest episode in the ongoing conflict between HD 14 candidate Kim Daniels and ex-husband Ardell Daniels, will be enacted in the courtroom of Judge James Daniel, with a pre-trial hearing ahead of an Aug. 4 non-jury civil trial.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniels once worked together, under the aegis of Spoken Word Ministries; however, the marriage went south, and so did the business partnership, with Ardell being removed.
Spoken Word Ministries alleges Ardell Daniels stole funds from the church toward the end, and seeks an action for civil theft, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty.
Daniels’ alleged offenses?
He “abused his authority and position of trust,” claims the Spoken Word filing, by removing $50,000 from the SWM account, using $13,750 of “corporate funds to pay his personal credit card bills,” using the corporate card for personal expenses, and selling a GMC Savanna owned by SWM to a dealership, so he could get a new vehicle.
Ironically, Ardell Daniels made similar claims about Kim Daniels commingling personal and church finances during their divorce proceedings last year.
Ardell Daniels asserted his wife “does not respect corporate formalities and routinely uses the assets of the corporations as her alter ego, to pay regular bills,” and that there was a “complete blending” of their personal and corporate property.
In a year when a Jacksonville-area incumbent in the State House, Reggie Fullwood, and a Jacksonville-area United States Representative, Corrine Brown, face federal charges for the improvident commingling of personal, corporate, and campaign accounts, this kind of narrative is becoming almost unremarkable.
