The completion of Kirbyjon Caldwell's fall from grace as a Houston megachurch pastor and spiritual advisor to presidents came in a federal courthouse in Shreveport on Wednesday with a six-year sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Caldwell had already pleaded guilty to the charge last year. The sentencing, though, completed a spectacular rise and fall of a prominent pastor. In its wake are disillusioned investors and church members. His rise and fall included both incredible highs and lows. The rise of Kirbyjon Caldwell Caldwell said he had "a knowing'' to be a minister in the early 1980s, but that was only after having cultivated a business background.