LOS ANGELES—A former lawyer from Redondo Beach agreed Oct. 20 to plead guilty to a fraud charge, admitting he lied to clients about winning cases and deceiving them with bogus documents, some with the forged signatures of judges. Matthew Charles Elstein, 51, will plead to one count of wire fraud in Los Angeles federal court on a date to be determined, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Elstein was a licensed California attorney from December 1994 until the State Bar of California ordered him inactive in March 2019. According to his plea agreement, from June 2015 to July 2018, Elstein engaged in a scheme to defraud his clients by claiming he obtained favorable legal resolutions for them, when in fact the favorable resolutions had never been obtained. In many cases, Elstein never initiated any legal action, prosecutors said. Elstein also admitted to misappropriating funds by informing victims their fees were …