A church Pastor pays $500k to stay out of jail!!
Tuesday. 2.13.07 3:03 pm
Moon's church to pay in shark poaching
It will give $500,000 to a wildlife fund to help restore damaged habitat after pastor is convicted of illegally catching and selling fish to pet stores.
The Unification Church's payment — part of a "non-prosecution agreement" with the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco — will go toward a $1.5-million fund to undo the environmental damage inflicted by the pastor's bizarre scheme.
Kevin Thompson, 48, pastor of the Bay Area Family Church in San Leandro, pleaded guilty in January to enlisting church members in an 11-year operation to illegally catch and sell the undersized leopard sharks to pet stores.
He was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and ordered to pay $100,000, which also will go toward the wildlife restoration fund.
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