>>> SOUTH FLORIDA PASTOR IS
THREATENING TO SUE THOSE WHO
HAVE COME OUT AND SPOKEN AGAINST
HIM.
>> MIAMI GARDENS PASTOR ERIC
REDAN HAS SENT SEVERAL PEOPLE
WHO APPEARED ON THE LOCAL 10
INVESTIGATION LETTERS THREATEN
ING TO SUE THEM FOR
SLANDER.
>> LOCAL 10 NEWS DID A SERIES OF
PRACTICES.
ONE ELDERLY MAN CLAIMS REDAN
SOLD HIS DREAM HOUSE OUT FROM
UNDER HIM WITHOUT HIM KNOWING.
>> LOCAL 10 INVESTIGATORS ARE
DATE.
>> SO WHAT'S HE SAYING HERE?
>> HE'S SAYING I SLANDERED HIM.
>> Reporter: THE LETTER INNED
NOTICED.
>> I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE.
>> Reporter: THIS MAN PASTOR
ERIC REDAN IS NOW COMING AFTER
THE 70-YEAR-OLD FOR DEFAMATION.
>> HE TOOK EVERYTHING I HAD, THE
MOST VALUABLE THING I HAD IN MY
LIFE AND SAYS IT'S BECAUSE OF
THE LORD.
>> Reporter: FULLER CLAIMS
PASTOR REDAN STOLE HIS DREAM
HOUSE RIGHT OUT FROM UNDER HIM.
HE BOUGHT THE PROPERTY BACK IN
1984 AND AFTER A 35-YEAR CAREER
AT THE POST OFFICE, HIS
RETIREMENT PROJECT WAS TO BUILD
A DREAM HOUSE FOR HIS FAMILY
MONEY.
REDAN, WHO HE HAD NEVER MET
BEFORE, PULLED UP AND OFFERED TO
GET HI LOANS.
FULLER ADMITS SIGNING OVER THE
PROPERTY TO PASTOR REDAN TO GET
THE MONEY TO FINISH THE PROJECT
BUT THERE WAS ALWAYS A PROM AS
HE TOLD US BACK IN MAY.
BACK.
THIS IS WHAT HE TOLD ME.
>> FULLER SAYS HE ONLY FOUND OUT
REDAN SOLD THE HOUSE FOR $380
,000 AFTER HE DID A PROPERTY
SEARCH AND FULLER TOLD US HE
DIDN'T GET A RED CENT.
>> YOU SOLD MY HOUSE.
HE SAID I GOT MY OWN PERSONAL
MONEY TIED NEW THIS HOUSE.
AND I CAN'T LOSE M MONEY.
>> IN THE STORY, YOU SAID THAT
PASTOR REDAN STOLE YOUR HOUSE.
>> YES.
STATEMENT?
>> YES, I HAVE DOCUMENTS TO SHOW
THAT HE TOOK MY HOUSE.
>> Reporter: AFTER OUR STORY
RANKER FULLER HIRED AND ATTORNEY
AND PLANS ON SUING THE PASTOR
FOR TAKING THE HOUSE.
WHAT DOES HE THINK ABOUT THI
DEFAMATION CLAIM?
>> THIS IS TO TRY TO KEEP ME
FROM TALKING BECAUSE LIKE I SAID
THEY CALL ME TO FIND OUT WHAT
THEY COULD DO IN FACT FOR ME NOT
TO GO FORWARD WITH THE SUIT.
>> AND WHAT DID YOU TELL THEM?
>> I TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS A
LITTLE BIT TOO LATE.
>> HE DOESN'T LIKE THE FACT THAT
YOU SAID HE STOLE MONEY.
>> HE DID STEAL MONEY.
>> Reporter: LATECIA BLUE WAS IN
OUR STORY BACK IN MAY AND ALSO
SENT THIS LETTER FROM REDAN
THREATENING TO SUE FOR
DEFAMATION.
BLUE TOLD US SHE GAVE REDAN
MONEY, ORDERS TOTALING $3,000 AS
REDAN WAS SELLING.
MONEY.
SHE NEVER GOT THE CART.
SHE HAS HAS NOW FILED SUIT
AGAINST REDAN, TRYING TO GET HER
MONEY BACK.
>> DO YOU THINK IT'S A TACTIC TO
SHUT YOU UP?
>> HE SHUT ME UP WHEN HE GIVE ME
MY $3,000.
THAT WILL SHUT ME UP.
>>> CRUMPLE IT UP.
>> THAT'S WHAT IT MOONS MEANS TO
ME.
>> REDAN PLANS ON SUING DEREK
ANDREWS FOR DEFAMATION AND YOU
SAW WHAT HE DID WHEN HE GOT THE
LETTER FROM REDAN.
ANDREWS TOLD US IN MAY HE LOANED
REDAN $4,000 TO PAY FOR RAPPERS
TO COME TO MIAMI GARDENS FOR AN
EVENT AND ANDREW SHOWED US
SEVERAL TECHS HE GOT FROM REDAN
WANTING MORE TIME TO PAY HIM
BACK.
BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED.
>> ERIC REDAN IS THE PASTOR AT
MIAMI GARDENS.
>> YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO CALL ME
TALK TO US PASTOR.
>> Reporter: HE SPED AWAY FROM
US BACK IN MAY AND HAS REFUSED
TO SIT DOWN AND ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS SINCE THEN.
>> THESE ARE VERY, VERY
>> Reporter: PROFESSOR OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SAYS BECAUSE
RED SOUTHBOUND A PUBLIC FIGURE
HE MUST PROVE THE STATEMENTS
FALSE BUT...
>> THAT THEY WERE RECKLESS, THEY
DIDN'T CARE WHETHER IT WAS TRUE
OR FALSE, THAT THEY ACTUALLY
LIED ABOUT THIS.
THAT'S EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT
FOR HIM TO PROVE.
>> ANY REGRETS TALKING TO US?
>> NO REGRETS WHATSOEVER.
>> IS THAT LETTER GONNA STOP YOU
FROM TALKING ABOUT ERIC?
GONNA SHUT YOU UP?
>> NEVER.
>> IF I WAS LYING, THEN MAYBE I
COULD BE AFRAID BUT EVERYTHING
THAT I'M SAYING HAPPENED.
>> REDAN IS ALSO SUING WPLG TV
FOR $12.5 MILLION.
HE CLAIMS LOCAL 10 NEWS RUINED
HIS REPUTATION.
WE HAVE ASKED BEFORE, WE'LL A
WHAT YOU THINK IS INACCURATE