Brooklyn Pastor Lamar Whitehead Arrested For Fraud, Extortion & Lying To Federal Authorities

Brooklyn Pastor Lamar Whitehead Arrested For Fraud, Extortion & Lying To Federal Authorities 

Lamor Whitehead will need to say a prayer to get himself out of jail.

On Monday (Dec. 19) new reports revealed that Bishop Lamor Whitehead was charged with fraud, extortion and lying to federal authorities. New York City prosecutors said the pastor, who was the victim of an armed robbery during his church service, solicited money from victims including a retired parishioner, through threats or lies of making them rich. Bishop Lamor Whitehead then allegedly kept the money for himself, never compensating the victims. Dawn Florio, Whitehead’s attorney said:

“Bishop Whitehead denies these allegations and we are going to fight them vigorously.”

Bishop Lamor Whitehead

As previously reported, a lawsuit was filed last year in Brooklyn’s Supreme Court alleging Whitehead stole $90,000 in retirement savings from one of his parishioners. Pauline Anderson accused him of persuading her to invest her entire life savings in one of his firms, Lamor Whitehead Inc., promising that he would assist her in buying a home despite her bad credit history. Whitehead connected Pauline Anderson with two money lenders who assured her she’d have a hard time getting approved for a  loan to buy a home. Whitehead then offered to help her himself if she agreed to invest money in his firm. The lawsuit states, Pauline Anderson wrote a $90,000 check to Whitehead in November 2020 and expected him to compensate her $100 monthly to pay her bills. Whitehead, the Bishop at Leaders of Tomorrow International Churches in Canarsie, Brooklyn, allegedly told the parishioner that he was using her money as a donation to his former campaign to run for Brooklyn borough president. He allegedly mentioned that he had no intentions on paying Anderson back. He texted her:

“I am a man of integrity and you will not lose.” 

The charges on Monday alleged Whitehead’s conduct predated the robbery that surfaced the public back this summer. As previously reported, the 44-year-old and his wife were robbed during his Sunday church service (July 24). The robbery was captured on Bishop Lamor’s live stream where three masked gunmen entered the church causing the pastor to surrender to the ground as the robbers grabbed his jewelry. The New York City Police Department claims burglars stole $400,000 worth of jewelry from the Bishop and his wife which later was valued at almost $1 million. In September two men were charged in Brooklyn federal court in connection with the robbery.

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