“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 fees. Citing Manhattan Federal Courtroom paperwork, the Day by day Information stories 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 12 months and charged with embezzling from one in all his congregation members’ retirement fund—utilized for a quarter-million greenback enterprise mortgage in the summertime of 2018, stories 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 actual fact exist.” In addition they made it appear to be his firm, Anointing Administration Companies LLC, had over $2 million in belongings, though “throughout that point interval [the business] had a median ending stability 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 residence in Paramus, New Jersey, described by the Day by day Information as a “six-bedroom, seven-bath…mansion.”
Bishop Whitehead was already going through fees that included fleecing a member of his flock to the tune of $90,000. He’s at present free on a $500,000 bond.
