“Bling Bishop” Lamor Whitehead, who first drew worldwide consideration when he was robbed whereas livestreaming a sermon in July 2022, is dealing with new federal fraud fees. Citing Manhattan Federal Court docket paperwork, the Each day Information experiences 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 12 months 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, 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 help 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.” Additionally they made it seem like his firm, Anointing Administration Companies LLC, had over $2 million in belongings, regardless 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 software 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 dealing with fees that included fleecing a member of his flock to the tune of $90,000. He’s at the moment free on a $500,000 bond.
