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'This sounds like a cult': Woman describes friend's experience in church at center of FBI raid

A federal investigation is underway Wednesday morning at a northwest Houston property identified as a campus for Joshua Media Ministries International (JMMI). According to JMMI’s website, the ministry is based in Taylor, Michigan, and led by David E. Taylor, 53, who was arrested earlier in the day along with Michelle Brannon, 56. The U.S. Department of Justice described the arrests as part of a nationwide takedown of what prosecutors called a “forced labor organization” involving money laundering and victimizing individuals through physical and psychological abuse.