After embezzling more than $400,000, a former Huntsville pastor has been sentenced to 60 months in prison. Adrian Derrell Davis, 42, originally pleaded guilty to wire fraud and filing a false tax return in October 2025.
Davis was the lead pastor and marketing consultant for All Nations Worship Assembly, where he received a salary and parsonage as compensation for his work.
"Davis betrayed his congregation when he abused his position of trust for personal gain," said U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona. "My office is committed to holding accountable individuals who violate positions of public trust."
Assistant special agent in charge Kristen A. Yukness, IRS Criminal Investigation, Atlanta Field Office, also weighed in on Davis' arrest and sentence.
"Adrian Davis stole funds from his parishioners and filed false tax returns to conceal his crime," said Yukness. "IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agents are dedicated to ensuring that individuals who hold positions of trust within the community and use those positions to participate in fraudulent financial activities are held accountable."
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama, from 2018 to 2020, Davis used his position as pastor to embezzle approximately $434,339 from the church.
In 2018, Davis used $30,920 in church funds to purchase an Audi A7. In 2019, Davis used $45,982 in church funds to purchase a 2016 GMC Yukon. He also used church funds to make 41 payments totaling $117,000 to satisfy the balance of his personal American Express card. Purchases that Davis made on this card included luxury items totaling $4,970.15 at Louis Vuitton and $5,300.00 at Flight Club, a shoe store in New York. In 2020, Davis used church funds to pay a balance of $18,530 on a credit card that he had used to purchase jewelry.
Davis also made additional payments from church funds to his personal American Express card that totaled over $151,000. Items purchased with church funds included a $29,900 purchase from Hublot, a $28,000 purchase from Peter Marco and a $6,022.50 purchase from Louis Vuitton.
None of the payments or purchases was authorized or approved by the church.
Davis also failed to report the embezzled profit on his individual tax returns for 2018, 2019, and 2020, resulting in a tax loss to the IRS of $114,859.00.
Davis did not provide his tax preparer with records showing that he had received and spent more than $400,000 of the Church’s funds in tax years 2018-2020. Additionally, he told his tax preparer that his extra income came solely from speaking engagements.
IRS-CI and the United States Secret Service investigated the case.
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