Darrell Wills is looking forward to putting the last eight years behind him.
After a lengthy battle trying to prove his pastor defrauded him and another business partner out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the conviction is in and Wills is breathing a sigh of relief.
A jury in May found J.B. Williams, the pastor of Abundant Living Faith Ministries, guilty of bank fraud and possession of personal identification information without authorization and acquitted him on a charge of theft, according to court records.
He has a case management hearing in August to determine his sentence.
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“I don’t want what happened to myself and Mr. Goldsmith, to happen to anyone else,” Wills said.
In 2016, Wills and his partner Hillard Goldsmith, both former members of Williams’ church, discovered that Williams had been withdrawing funds from their retirement savings account with Bank of America for years, according to court records.