The Brooklyn preacher, who made headlines in 2022 after getting robbed during Sunday service, is back in the news after being sued for deed theft.
The complaint alleges the minister not only created a “fraudulent deed” that said he owned the property but had it filed in the Office of the City Register of the city of New York, where his mentor Eric Adams serves as mayor.
A lawsuit obtained by Atlanta Black Star and filed in a Brooklyn Supreme Court alleges Bishop Lamor Whitehead falsified documents that said he was the owner of a church building whose congregation he evicted earlier in the year. The complaint was filed on Friday, April 28, and named the pastor and Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries Inc. as defendants.
At the core of the lawsuit is the 5904 Foster Avenue Trust, an estate plan set up in New York City for a property owned by brother and sister Lydia Moses and Michael Moses. This trust is the official owner of all of the “right, title and interest in the real property located at 5904 Foster Avenue Brooklyn, NY.”
After the property went into foreclosure, due to taxes, the trust, headed by the Moses siblings, paid $1.9 million “to receive the Referee’s Deed conveying the property to the Trust dated February 28, 2022, and recorded on March 28, 2022.”
Whitehead expressed interest in securing the property but did not have all of the money needed to assume full ownership.
Though the preacher and self-proclaimed real estate guru lacked the full financing to acquire the property, the trust agreed to give him authority to act in two matters related to the property — believing the funding would be met, the complaint says.
The Moses trust created an addendum that authorized Whitehead to “commence a legal proceeding seeking the lawful removal of the occupants of the property,” and “apply for financing to purchase the property.”
At no time, according to the complaint, did Moses resign as the…
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