Worship leader Sean Feucht lied about needing money for his 2023 Let Us Worship – Kingdom to the Capitol Tour, according to an amended lawsuit filed today in federal court.

The tour was already completely financed through a partnership with activist Charlie Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the amended suit states. But Feucht reportedly asked California businessman Steve Bray to donate $250,000 anyway, not telling him where his money was really going.

“The financial books and records of Feucht-related ministries did not correspond with representations made in soliciting donations,” the lawsuit says. “Ministry funds were handled differently than donors had been led to understand.”

Bray, owner of Power Plus and a donor to Roys Report (RR), originally filed suit in United States District Court in Los Angeles on March 6. He asked for “restitution and disgorgement of all funds fraudulently obtained” as well as punitive damages. 

The lawsuit was dismissed in September for lack of evidence. However, Judge David O. Carter rejected Feucht’s attorneys’ arguments that the court could not consider evidence of fraud without getting entangled in religious affairs and violating the First Amendment. Carter told Bray’s lawyers they were welcome to refile the suit with additional supporting details. 

Attorney Christine Jones, who also sits on RR’s board, submitted the amended lawsuit ahead of the 21-day deadline.

The 18-page document outlines a March 6, 2022, meeting between Feucht and Bray. It offers times, dates, documents and named witnesses who say they can testify to Feucht’s deception. 

“(Sean Feucht Ministries) asked for greater specificity about the fraud allegations. The amended complaint gives them exactly that,” Jones told RR in an email. “When you weigh the facts against the law, we believe the evidence will establish Bray’s fraud claim.” 

Feucht could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday. He has previously said the lawsuit is just harassment, designed as a “distraction to stop the mandate God has given this ministry.” 

Donor believed in ministry

Bray says he believed in Feucht’s ministry and wanted to partner with him to bring spiritual warfare through worship music to the 50 state capitals in 2023 and 2024. He resonated with the message of a struggle for the “soul of America.”

That’s why he gave Feucht $250,000 — money Bray says he thought would go to staff, permits, travel, hotels, the band, bus drivers, fuel, food and other expenses.

When the businessman later visited Feucht’s Washington D.C. “parsonage,” located less than a mile from the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court, he started to have questions about ministry spending. 

Tax records show the 1,050-square-foot townhouse cost almost $1 million. Feucht calls it a “fortress of prayer.” But Bray wondered if the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath residence was a good use of money. And he wondered if his donation was going into real estate.

In 2025, according to the amended filing, the businessman spoke to someone who worked on the finances of the tour. Richie Booth, former accountant for two Feucht-run ministries, told Bray the financial records shown to donors were not completely accurate, the suit states.

Booth connected Bray to more insiders with “firsthand knowledge” of tour finances. According to the lawsuit, they told Bray that all tour expenses were billed to Charlie Kirk’s organization.

Kirk, who was assassinated in September 2025, had become convinced that political conflict in America was also spiritual. He said the country needed “a different type of Christianity,” with a “hot gospel … bringing a nation to repentance, which will then lead to revival.”

Feucht said his tour was a response to Kirk’s call.

“We brainstormed a way to bring about the change we wanted to see in America—REVIVAL in all 50 states,” Feucht wrote in 2025. “From that, the Kingdom to the Capitol Tour was born!”

According to the lawsuit, Feucht did not tell Bray the whole thing was fully funded by TPUSA. People who worked on the tour showed Bray evidence that Feucht billed Kirk’s organization $50,950 in July 2023 and another $30,950 in August.

The people who worked on the tour told Bray the TPUSA funding was in place before the March 6 meeting; Feucht just did not mention it. When the TPUSA/Feucht partnership was made public later that month, nothing was said about TPUSA funding the tour.

Bray’s money, meanwhile, went into a general fund, according to the lawsuit.

“Had Feucht disclosed that TPUSA had already agreed to fund all of the costs of the Tour, Plaintiff would not have made the $250,000 payment,” the lawsuit says. “Feucht did not disclose that arrangement, its scope, or its effect on the funding need represented to Plaintiff.”

Jones told the court in the amended filing she can also provide internal communications about funding and fundraising, business records from 2023 and additional witnesses. Some have not yet been named.

“These are not anonymous allegations floating around without attribution,” Jones told RR. “There are additional people with relevant knowledge whom we have not identified publicly. … We do not want to expose witnesses unnecessarily before the litigation requires it.”

Where did the money go?

The amended lawsuit does not make any claims about how Feucht spent Bray’s quarter-million-dollar donations. The original suit said that the money was used for Feucht’s “personal benefit” and “diverted” to “non-charitable purposes, such as the purchase of personal assets.”

People who have worked with Feucht have accused him of spending ministry money on personal expenses, including real estate. They also say they have witnessed bank, wire, payroll and tax fraud.

Feucht, around the same time, took legal steps that allow him not to disclose financial information, following a trend in Christian ministry.

The amended suit, however, does not make the argument or offer evidence that funds were misspent. According to Jones, it will not be necessary to track every dollar that Feucht spent to make Bray’s case in court.

“The key question,” she said, “is whether Bray was told the truth about why his $250,000 was needed in the first place.”

Daniel Silliman is senior reporter/editor at Roys Report. He began his two decades in journalism covering crime in Atlanta and has since led major investigations into abuse and misconduct in Christian contexts. Daniel and his wife live in Johnson City, Tennessee.