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Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead was launched on $500,000 bond after he was prosecuted over the weekend, and arraigned on Monday in a Manhattan federal court.
Whitehead, charged with scams, extortion, and lying to the FBI, is implicated of tricking a parishioner out of $90,000. He went into a “not-guilty” plea.
It isn’t clear where the 44-year-old Brooklyn preacher got the $50,000 money to protect his $500K bond.
The federal judge bought Bishop Whitehead to surrender his passport, and restrict his travel to New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and have no contact with any of the declared victims or witnesses.
Bishop Whitehead will be restricted to his $3 million estate in Bergen County. He and his other half can likewise keep – a minimum of in the meantime – their designer clothes, ostentatious precious jewelry, and their fleet of high-end automobiles.
Federal authorities state he funded his extravagant way of life utilizing cash he took from his parish and other victims.
The indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan declares he tricked a lady out of $90,000 after informing her he would purchase her a house and remodel it with her money.
Instead, authorities state he purchased expensive clothing and other high-end products with the lady’s cash.
Whitehead likewise apparently obtained a business person for $5,000 and asked him for a $500,000 loan in exchange for utilizing his impact with New York City mayor Eric Adams, according to the indictment.
“Lamor Whitehead abused the trust positioned in him by a parishioner, bullied a business person for $5,000, then attempted to defraud him of even more than that, and lied to federal representatives,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams stated on Monday. “His project of scams and deceit stops now.”
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