Former Aurora pastor faces more theft charges

Wheaton - As he asked his parishioners for thousands of dollars, former Aurora Pastor Howard Richmond showed off phony bank letters and deposit tickets claiming he had millions of dollars in the bank, according to new indictments issued by a DuPage County grand jury. It has been almost three years since prosecutors first charged Richmond, a Naperville resident, with bilking members of his storefront church in Aurora - Life Reach Ministries - to the tune of $459,000 in a scheme where he solicited funding for construction of a new church while claiming to have plenty of money in various accounts.