Pick-Pocketin’ Preachers! 10 Black Churches Caught Up In Embezzlement Scandals
Hilltop Apostolic Church (California)
“It’s hard to imagine a more egregious crime, stealing from one’s own church,” Sharon Lerman-Hubert said, a Deputy District Attorney. Bruce Anthony Stark, pastor at Hilltop Apostolic Church, pick-pocketed his pious behind into prison. This past February, he was sentenced to three years in prison — he’ll have a long time to reflect on the $100,000 he embezzled. “Bruce Stark’s thefts included cash, a van and land parcels that belonged to the church,” ThePressDemocrat wrote.