“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 Day by day Information studies that Whitehead “advised 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 certainly one of his congregation members’ retirement fund—utilized for a quarter-million greenback enterprise mortgage in the summertime of 2018, studies the Information. He did not get the mortgage, which was good, on condition that prosecutors allege that Whitehead made up some very important paperwork to help the mortgage utility he crammed out on-line.
The brand new indictment in opposition to Whitehead states that his paperwork have been for “a checking account that didn’t in actual fact exist.” Additionally they made it appear to be his firm, Anointing Administration Companies LLC, had over $2 million in property, despite the fact that “throughout that point interval [the business] had a mean 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 utility for a $1.3 million mortgage on his house in Paramus, New Jersey, described by the Day by 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.
