Beverly Hills scammer pleads guilty to $18-million cannabis con

Mark Roy Anderson, 69, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. In the first scheme he pleaded guilty to Friday, Anderson tricked investors in 2020 and 2021 into providing funding for his company, called Harvest Farm Group, to harvest and process hemp grown on his farm into medical-grade cannabidiol isolate— a chemical found in…