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7 On Your Side: Man of God or fraud?

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Channel: Eyewitness News ABC7NY · 2018 · News & Politics

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7 On Your Side never gives up. Six years ago they tracked down a clergyman who was a wanted man in three counties.

The reverend was eventually convicted for fraud. 

This year, we found he was back at the pulpit in Newark and back in trouble with the law -- now his former landlord says he bounced a deposit check to him worth $2,500.

It's been six years since 7 On Your Side came face to face with Rev. Robert Hester.

In 2012, the self-proclaimed bishop got busted for writing bogus checks just days after we crossed state lines to catch up with him in Pennsylvania.

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