He used the victims’ money to buy a 1933 Rolls Royce Phantom II Continental Sedanca de Ville by Barker and rare antiques, such as thrones, investigators said.

The long-running Ponzi scheme stole more than $5.9 million from investors, mainly elderly Filipino churchgoers.

A San Fernando Valley man who pretended to be European nobility has agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he operated a Ponzi scheme that targeted the Filipino community, including many elderly church parishioners,

A businessman who pretended to be European nobility has agreed to plead guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that targeted the Filipino community, including elderly church parishioners. Sylvein William Maximilian D’Habsburg XVII,

A San Fernando Valley man agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to a federal charge for swindling elderly church parishioners and others in a ponzi scheme that took in more than $5.9 million.