“Bling Bishop” Lamor Whitehead, who first drew worldwide consideration when he was robbed whereas livestreaming a sermon in July 2022, is going through new federal fraud costs. Citing Manhattan Federal Courtroom paperwork, the Daily News experiences that Whitehead “informed a financial institution his enterprise had $2 million in its coffers when it had lower than $10.”
The Rolls Royce-driving Whitehead—arrested in December final yr and charged with embezzling from one in every of his congregation members’ retirement fund—utilized for a quarter-million greenback enterprise mortgage in the summertime of 2018, experiences the Information. He did not get the mortgage, which was good, provided that prosecutors allege that Whitehead made up some very important paperwork to assist the mortgage software he stuffed out on-line.
The brand new indictment towards Whitehead states that his paperwork have been for “a checking account that didn’t in truth exist.” Additionally they made it appear like his firm, Anointing Administration Providers LLC, had over $2 million in property, although “throughout that point interval [the business] had a median ending steadiness of lower than ten {dollars}.”
Regardless of not acquiring the 2018 mortgage, Whitehead allegedly tried once more in 2019, utilizing faked paperwork as a part of an software for a $1.3 million mortgage on his house in Paramus, New Jersey, described by the Every day Information as a “six-bedroom, seven-bath…mansion.”
Bishop Whitehead was already going through costs that included fleecing a member of his flock to the tune of $90,000. He’s presently free on a $500,000 bond.
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