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A 65-year-old pastor was sentenced Thursday to six years of supervised probation for cheating mortgage lenders out of tens of thousands of dollars, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
Harold Joe Hicks, pastor of Mount Carmel Community Baptist Church, was found guilty earlier this year of three counts of forgery.
His sentence bars him from working in the real estate industry while on probation.
“Hicks told the Court he cannot show remorse because it was not within his character to have done what he had been accused of,” the District Attorney’s Office said in a media release.
Hicks was accused of using surrogate buyers and false information to get loans at a lower interest rates.
A restitution hearing is scheduled for Oct. 28.
