NYC “Bling Bishop” Gets Nine Years For Multiple Scams

The New York Daily News reports:

Lamor Whitehead, the politically connected Brooklyn pastor and self-described mentee of Mayor Adams dubbed the “Bling Bishop” for his flamboyant, big-spending lifestyle, was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday for swindling a parishioner’s mother out of her life savings and other scams.

Manhattan federal court Judge Lorna Schofield handed down the term after hearing from financially destroyed victims and Whitehead himself. “I don’t see any remorse for your conduct,” Judge Schofield said, describing the evidence as “frankly overwhelming.”

A jury in March found the pastor from Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Canarsie guilty of five counts, including wire fraud, attempted extortion, lying to the FBI, and related charges connected to three separate schemes that saw him bilk tens of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims.

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God’s servant first made national headlines in 2022 when he claimed that armed robbers stole over $1 million in jewelry from him during his church’s live-stream.

Whitehead has previously served five years in prison for identity theft and larceny. He last appeared on JMG when he called two of his critics “fat pig” and “faggot” during a following live-stream.

Before the supposed million-dollar jewelry theft incident, Whitehead earned local scorn for attempting to broker the surrender of a subway shooter directly to Mayor Eric Adams rather than to police.