{"id":928,"date":"2015-05-01T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2015-05-01T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:50:23","slug":"pastor-admits-to-wire-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Pastor admits to wire fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri pastor who sold financial products on the side has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/controversial-st-charles-pastor-admits-defrauding-elderly-investors\/article_8b53a722-c10e-5c92-83c7-6a80d6bff272.html\" target=\"_blank\">confessed to wire fraud<\/a> rather than face trial.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Until Thursday, Staley, 40, who rents a $1 million home after making excuses for a foreclosed house and unpaid taxes, blamed complaints on \u201cenemies of the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But rather than face trial, Staley stood in a federal courtroom packed with supporters here Thursday and pleaded guilty of four counts of wire fraud. He admitted that, as owner of a financial consulting firm, he had cheated 16 investors out of $3.3 million while making $570,000 for himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri pastor who sold financial products on the side has confessed to wire fraud rather than face trial. Until Thursday, Staley, 40, who rents a $1 million home after making excuses for a foreclosed house and unpaid taxes, blamed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=928\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}