Warnock’s church evicts low-income tenants while benefiting the senator.

With Sen. ‌Raphael⁤ Warnock (D., Ga.) safe and secure in the Senate for the next ‌six years, the church where he‌ collects a salary as⁤ a part-time ​pastor is back‍ to evicting residents of ⁢the low-income apartment building it owns — a subject ⁣that became a flashpoint in Warnock’s​ 2022 reelection campaign.

Since the Democrat won reelection in December, ‍Fulton County court records ‌show, the apartment building owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church, has moved to evict six residents. The building, Columbia MLK Tower, has received over $15⁤ million in‍ federal and state funding to shelter the ⁣”chronically homeless,” but ‌has nonetheless taken four residents to court this year for falling behind on rent by less ‌than two ‌months. Law enforcement officials forcibly ejected another‌ resident from the ‍pest-infected building in July.

Warnock ​denied during the 2022 campaign that the church ⁤was⁢ evicting residents, telling Georgia voters that the Free Beacon reports were “vicious and venomous” attempts to “sully⁣ Ebenezer Baptist⁤ Church” and the “church of Jesus Christ.”

Ebenezer pays Warnock a six-figure salary for ⁣his part-time pastoral services ‍at levels that exceed the outside income allowance for senators. Warnock has leveraged several accounting loopholes to rake in sums⁢ far beyond that $30,000 limit. The⁢ church paid the senator $120,000⁢ in ​2021, for example, ‌$89,000 of ‌which was a tax-free “parsonage ‌allowance” that ⁢he used to pay ⁢for his $1 million Atlanta home. And ‍though Warnock made $155,000 from his church in 2022, the senator⁣ claimed ​$125,000 of that salary as “deferred compensation” for services he rendered before ⁤he was sworn into office in January 2021, the Washington ⁣Free Beacon reported.

Among the disadvantaged residents facing eviction from Ebenezer’s apartment building is Vietnam veteran Phillip ‌White. The building’s property manager, Columbia Residential, moved in March to‍ evict White for $192 in unpaid rent after he fell about five weeks behind on his payments.

Columbia Residential⁤ voluntarily​ dismissed that lawsuit after White accused the ⁢building ⁤of failing to repair several​ appliances in ⁢his ‌unit. But White was taken to court again ‍in June for falling behind on his rent payments by less than two months. The Fulton County Magistrate Court on ‌Aug. 7⁣ granted law‌ enforcement officials a writ⁣ of ⁢possession to remove White from ​the property.

This isn’t the‍ first time Ebenezer’s apartment building has ⁤sought to evict ‍White. It filed a ⁢dispossessory⁣ notice​ against White in September⁤ 2022‌ for $192 in unpaid rent, only to drop the case in November after the Free Beacon reported the building’s aggressive eviction practices.

White‌ Warnock’s denials are a slap in the⁤ face.

“He said there⁣ would be no‍ evictions,” White told the Free Beacon in November. “He knew‍ that was a lie. What he was really saying is there would be​ no evictions until after the election.”

Warnock, Ebenezer ⁤Baptist Church,‍ and ​Columbia Residential‌ did⁢ not return⁢ requests for comment.