Huntington Beach man pleads guilty to scamming L.A.’s Fifth Church of Christ out of $11.5 million

Huntington Beach man pleads guilty to scamming L.A.’s Fifth Church of Christ out of $11.5 million

Orange County Register
February 3, 2020, 4:32 pm
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Charles Thomas Sebesta, a 54-year-old Huntington Beach resident, agreed to plead guilty to one count each of wire fraud and bank fraud for orchestrating the scheme to steal at least $11.5 million from the Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, a longtime Hollywood-based branch of the Church of Christian Science.
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