An Orange County man who co-founded the online financial services company Aspiration Partners agreed Thursday to plead guilty to conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million.

Joe Sanberg, 46, of Orange will enter his plea in the coming weeks in L.A. federal court to two counts of wire fraud, felonies that each carry a sentence of up to 20 years behind bars, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Ibrahim AlHusseini, 51, of Venice, a former Aspiration board member and investor, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud for falsifying documents that aided in the scheme, federal prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Sanberg and AlHusseini fraudulently obtained $145 million in loans several years ago from two lenders by pledging shares of Sanberg’s Aspiration stock. Sanberg and AlHusseini als

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