Barry Minkow Is The Transition From A Convict To A Fraud- Buster Real When Barry Minkow was released from prison in 1995 where he had spent more than seven years for committing securities and bank fraud media and people believed his claims that he was a changed man. There seemed to be much truth in this assertion, when Barry became Director of the Bible Institute and Pastor of Evangelism at the Church of Rocky Peak in California. All doubts about his integrity came to rest when he started the Fraud Discovery Institute, claiming that his years in prison had made …