From 1984 to 1987, he and his associates offered life-time partnerships to fund the building of facilities at "Heritage USA", a fancy Christian holiday and activity center in Fort Mill, South Carolina. In return for their financial support, the partners were promised free lodging at Heritage USA based on the availability of space. However, the organisation could not keep its promises towards them and was accused of deliberately refraining from building sufficient lodging space for regular guests plus Lifetime Partners. One of the most important allegations was that they oversold, which constituted a fraud. Bakker was put on trial. Convicted with fraud and conspiring to commit fraud he was sentenced to 45 years in prison by judge Robert Potter in Charlotte, North Carolina. He served almost 5 years in prison and was paroled for good behavior in 1993. In 1992 he and his wife Tammy were separated at her request.
In 1996 Jim Bakker's book was published, entitled I was wrong (Thomas Nelson Publishers).
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