In order to get his family’s million-dollar house, Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead allegedly faked financial paperwork, according to a recent federal indictment.
The pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries fiercely rejects any wrongdoing and intends to enter a not guilty plea in spite of the government’s proof.
Bishop Lamor Miller Whitehead, the controversial preacher who was robbed in the middle of a service at his Canarsie church in 2022, was the target of a new charge from federal prosecutors in Manhattan on March 8.
The Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office charged him in the indictment with fabricating bank documents to help buy his Paramus, New Jersey, estate, according to the New York Post.
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According to SDNY prosecutors, Whitehead faked a bank statement to show that an LLC under his control had more than $2 million in its account in order to get the mortgage for the house.
The 44-year-old allegedly only had a little more than $10 in the account, according to the authorities.
“We are going to be fighting those allegations,” Whitehead’s lawyer, Dawn Florio, said after the indictment was released. “Lamor Whitehead will be pleading not guilty when he is arraigned on the … indictment and denies those charges.”
Whitehead had already been charged with fabricating his bank statements in order to obtain a home loan. In 2019, he allegedly attempted to execute the same strategy.
After the indictment was released, he said on Instagram Live, “For everybody that’s praying for me, thank you, man. And for everyone that wish my downfall, thank you — because the Bible says that God says, ‘I’ll make your enemies your footstool.’”
Adding, “You gotta be careful with touching a bishop; even if you feel like I’m not one, I am one. And if you become an enemy of God, right, that’s on you.”
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