“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 expenses. Citing Manhattan Federal Courtroom paperwork, the Day by day Information stories 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 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 important paperwork to assist the mortgage software he stuffed out on-line.
The brand new indictment towards Whitehead states that his paperwork had been for “a checking account that didn’t in truth exist.” Additionally they made it appear to be his firm, Anointing Administration Providers LLC, had over $2 million in property, though “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 Day by day Information as a “six-bedroom, seven-bath…mansion.”
Bishop Whitehead was already going through expenses 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.