A.G. Gancarski
The holiday season can test even the best of relationships, and offered the impetus for severance of ties between a barrister and a state legislator.
Citing “irreconcilable differences,” attorney Vladimir St. Louis motioned Nov. 21 to withdraw from a foreclosure case involving Spoken Word Ministries, the theological concern of Rep. Kim Daniels, a Jacksonville Democrat.
The motion hearing is slated for Tuesday.
The mortgage holder, Freedom Mortgage Corporation, has sought to foreclose on the property (an $860,000 “parsonage” in Davie) since December 2016.
However, those efforts have been successfully forestalled over months. Motions to cancel a sale date have been filed four times — the most recent one, a cancellation of an October sale due to Hurricane Irma, resetting the event to a December sale date that is likely up in the air given the Spoken Word/St. Louis schism.
The latest filing for extension asserted that Spoken Word Ministries needs “time to review damage that the subject property may have sustained,” as well as “potential property insurance issues,” and “eligibility for loss mitigation and other foreclosure avoidance opportunities.”
Left unaddressed in Spoken Word’s filing was how a foreclosure process that was months in the making before the 2017 hurricane season even started should be affected by Irma — a storm with which Rep. Daniels had a unique rhetorical relationship.
In the wake of Hurricane Irma in September, Rep. Daniels asserted that “prophets” saw the storm coming.
“Nothing happens except God reveal it to prophets first,” the Jacksonville Democrat observed as the historic hurricane enveloped the peninsula.
No word on whether prophets revealed that Spoken Word’s attorney would punt on the case.
The Davie property was part of an impressive portfolio of parsonages and parson-appropriate vehicles amassed by Spoken Word Ministries, as the divorce filing of Ardell Daniels — the Rep’s now ex-husband — indicated.
Beyond that $860,000 home, the couple acquired other properties, including three Jacksonville homes, a Jacksonville commercial property, and three Central Florida timeshares. The Jacksonville home where Kim Daniels lives was appraised in 2015 at $386,940.
Additionally, Spoken Word Ministries had 13 vehicles, either in the name of the corporation or the husband.
Daniels, meanwhile, maintains impressive earning power; as of her last financial disclosure statement, she made $96,000 from Spoken Word Ministries and just over $100,000 from Kim Daniels Ministries International in 2016.
Daniels’ net worth, per that disclosure document, was just shy of $595,000, with $34,116 in liabilities including two car notes and department store charge cards.
One comment
Frankie M.
November 25, 2017 at 5:11 pm
AG is a closet gator fan. Can’t help but root against FSU. Even said Bobby didn’t deserve to play against WVU in his final game. FSU took the mountaineers out behind the woodshed that game. Of course that only mad hee AG more belligerent. He said that the result didn’t matter when it clearly mattered to him. It’s a good thing he doesn’t write about sports anymore.
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