“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 prices. Citing Manhattan Federal Court docket paperwork, the Each day Information reviews that Whitehead “instructed 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 among his congregation members’ retirement fund—utilized for a quarter-million greenback enterprise mortgage in the summertime of 2018, reviews the Information. He did not get the mortgage, which was good, on condition that prosecutors allege that Whitehead made up some important paperwork to assist the mortgage utility he crammed out on-line.
The brand new indictment towards Whitehead states that his paperwork have been for “a checking account that didn’t actually exist.” In addition they made it seem like his firm, Anointing Administration Providers LLC, had over $2 million in property, although “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 dwelling in Paramus, New Jersey, described by the Each day Information as a “six-bedroom, seven-bath…mansion.”
Bishop Whitehead was already going through prices that included fleecing a member of his flock to the tune of $90,000. He’s at present free on a $500,000 bond.
