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\t\t\t\tThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) <\/a>has filed fraud charges against two men claiming to be pastors of a church at a strip mall in Orange County, California. Kent R.E. Whitney and David Lee Parrish are accused of targeting members of their local Vietnamese community and defrauding investors of millions of dollars. The regulator has obtained an asset freeze in what it is calling a $25M Ponzi scam.<\/p>\n

Whitney, who has a criminal fraud <\/a>record, is the founder of The Church for the Healthy Self. The Commission said that he established the church three months after getting out of federal prison where he had been serving time for a different investment scam that had defrauded 10 investors of over $600K.<\/p>\n

The regulator contends in its complaint that The Church for the Healthy Self\u2019s investment program, called the CHS Trust, touted:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed fraud charges against two men claiming to be pastors of a church at a strip mall in Orange County, California. Kent R.E. Whitney and David Lee Parrish are accused of targeting members of their local Vietnamese community and defrauding investors of millions of dollars. 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