A new federal indictment alleges a flashy Brooklyn preacher under investigation falsified bank documents in seeking to purchase his family’s million-dollar home.
Despite evidence presented by the government, the pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries vehemently denies any wrongdoing and plans to plead not guilty.
On Wednesday, March 8, Manhattan federal prosecutors issued a new indictment against Bishop Lamor Miller Whitehead, the controversial clergyman who was robbed during service in his Canarsie church in 2022. Within the indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York claimed he fabricated bank records to assist in purchasing his Paramus, New Jersey, mansion, the New York Post reported.
SDNY prosecutors allege that in an effort to obtain the mortgage for the home, Whitehead created a fake bank statement saying an LLC he controlled had over $2 million in its account.
The feds claim the 44-year-old actually had a little under $10 in the account.
“We are going to be fighting those allegations,” Whitehead’s lawyer, Dawn Florio, said after the indictment was released. “Lamor Whitehead will be pleading not guilty when he is arraigned on the … indictment and denies those charges.”
This is not the first time Whitehead has been accused of faking his bank statements for a mortgage loan. He is alleged to have tried to flip the same scheme in 2019.
Manhattan federal prosecutors wrote in the indictment Whitehead “fabricated bank records for AMS LLC, from at least in or about October 2018 up to and including … February 2019, in an effort to obtain a mortgage in excess of $1.3 million to fund [his] purchase of a home in Paramus, New Jersey.”
Federal agents have been locked in on Whitehead after detaining him in December 2022. He was originally arrested on four charges but was charged with an additional count of wire fraud connected to his Anointed Management Service,…
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