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I tend to agree with you on this one.

However, the evidence is enough for me to say that Wiest is certainly someone to avoid 100%, priest or not.

It also seems to me that Fr. Perez needs to vet who he allows on the altar more carefully.  That is, if he has any say in the matter, as he may be controlled by the "board".

Fr. Schell never liked the idea of a "board", God rest his soul, but he saw no way around it.

Yes. Father Schell, may he rest in peace, based on the best-available information at the time, thought it would be best for the school to own the Church, rather than the Church to own the school. Well-intended decisions often have unintended consequences.

I think, by your response, that you are unfamiliar with OLHC's history.  So allow me to clue you in.
This is a case of what came first - the chicken or the egg.  Apparently you believe that the church came first & so should own the school.  In fact it was the other way around.  This group of Catholics had a school in the beginning with no set building until they got a house in Garden Grove.  They were attached to Fr. Schell who had no set building, but would attend his Mass in public school gyms.  They had a School Board of sorts with a Principal.

Then this property with a school & church came on the market & they bought it.  The Principal remained the same & it looks to me like the Principal was also in charge of the whole property.  Fr. Shell brought Fr. Perez on board while they were still having Mass in the public school gym. Fr. Schell died after they moved to the new property, & that left Fr. Perez the principle priest but the Principal & the original people on the school board were in charge of the whole property.  It looks to me like the people in charge have some say in any priests that come there, but you would think that Fr. Perez would or should vet the priests & I hardly think that the people in charge would have fought his decisions.  Fr. Perez didn't want the rectory to be near the church - which is where it usually is & should be - & so he bought a large house for himself in another town several miles from the church!!

The moral of this story is --  don't blame the School board for the mess at the church.  That was Fr. Perez's job & responsibility & he was too busy with worldly things to bother with it.  Yes, I know much more but you should be able to get the picture.

Excuse me, but your information is not correct.

Fr. Perez did not purchase his own home, rather, it was purchased for him by his parents.

This does not excuse him, in my eyes. He should still be living in a proper rectory on the Church premises, but so should Fr. Starbuck. They ought to be living in community, praying the Divine Office together and observing some kind of life in common.

Fr. Wiest is another story. He came to the church early this year, February or March I believe, when the good Monsignor was having a surgery. We had the impression he would only be staying a short time; instead, he has become a fixture at OLHC, for better or worse...

I tend to say for worse, because even though I've been away from California for several months, I've been following Fr. Wiest's antics on this forum with interest. He is making himself into a questionable figure when he could resolve doubts by being more transparent.

It would be better for Wiest if he preached a sermon from a book instead of his extemporaneous theorizing. The same goes for Perez and to a lesser extent Fr. Starbuck. The 40 minute sermons there, if you can call them that, are very hard to bear.

Thank you for your balanced comment regarding OLHC and the Fr’s there. 

I have never been to this church, nor do I know any parishioners or the priests there. I have been following this story hoping it would pan out at some point, but some of the comments have been extremely vicious in nature, and many of the posts left a bad taste, so I found myself actually rooting for the underdogs. 

Honestly, if there had been even an ounce of charity in those who were posting their concerns about such things, there would be a lot more sympathy from others here. 
Sadly, those anonymous ones who are lacking that Catholic prudence and charity have shown that even after correction of their error, they refuse to learn, so this post will also fall on their deaf ears too. 

It is a tragedy Fr Perez was sick and now has passed away while this train wreck was going on over here. We can only hope it ends here and now. 
I sincerely pray that Fr Wiest has received the Last Sacraments and is on his way to recovery so he can have the chance to clear his name. Whether he chooses to or not is up to him, but while he is ill, and could be on deaths door, we all need to leave this alone. 
The people of this church have already lost Mass for a period of time. I hope they have an alternative chapel to get the Sacraments.