The former chairman of the board for the Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Los Angeles, Charles Sebesta, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges that he stole more than $11 million in church money via bank accounts for phony companies and tried to cover...

    In October 2019, James Roy McDaniel, 66, of Long Beach, a former tax and estate-planning lawyer pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion.A federal judge sentenced McDaniel to 60 months in federal prison.  McDaniel also has to pay back $1.54 million.  McDaniel, a licensed California lawyer f...