Wire Fraud – Tag – MinistryWatch
A church treasurer in Kentucky will begin a 33-month prison sentence in March for wire fraud and must pay over $500,000 in restitution to the church he stole from.
A Boston-area man who claimed to be an Orthodox Christian monk who had taken a vow of poverty has been charged with COVID relief fund fraud totaling $3.6 million in connection with several organizations he ...
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A team of scammers who created a sham theology school to defraud the U.S. Department of Education’s financial aid programs of millions of dollars has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud.
An Oklahoma City woman has been charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for allegedly embezzling more than $360,000 from the California church where she was an administrator for five years.
Staccato Powell, the former president of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church’s board of bishops, has been federally charged with fraud and conspiracy connected to allegations of his mishandling the properties of congregations in California ...
The pastor of a North Carolina church pleaded guilty last week to tax and wire fraud and using false information to obtain a COVID-19 relief loan.
A former Tucson insurance agent who also ran a Christian counseling service has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for defrauding multiple clients, many of them elderly, out of more than ...
The former chairman of the board of a Los Angeles Christian Science church has been sentenced to 130 months in prison and ordered to pay back more than $11.4 million he stole from the church.
A Washington, D.C., pastor could face up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud after allegedly using government coronavirus relief money for personal expenses, including the purchase of a $60,000 Tesla.
