A man who was serving as a visiting pastor at a Sunset District church in recent years allegedly defrauded at least four parishioners out of tens of thousands of dollars, purporting to be a licensed attorney.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against 56-year-old Kenny Man Wong, alleging that Wong took over $400,000 from parishioners at an unnamed church on 19th Avenue in the Sunset District. Starting in 2018, “Dr. Wong” served as a visiting pastor at the church, and he allegedly “used his position of trust to learn about the parishioners’ personal, sometimes legal, struggles.”
According to investigators, Wong began offering legal services to some parishioners, “claiming that in addition to being a pastor, he was also an attorney affiliated with several prestigious universities.” Over several years, Wong allegedly would tell these parishioners he was “working on their case” while continuing to extract money from them — using their shared faith as a way out of awkward conversations about why the work was taking so long…