Bishop Whitehead Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Bank Fraud, Extortion & More

Brooklyn Bishop Whitehead Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Multiple Scams

Bishop Whitehead, popular bling preacher Brooklyn, has now been sentenced to 9 years in prison. On Monday, Lamor Whitehead was sentenced to nine years in prison for swindling a church member’s mother out of her life savings and other scams.

Lamor was previously found guilty of wire fraud, attempted extortion, lying to the FBI and related charges stemming from three separate schemes.

“The defendant was trusted by many in his community,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Greenwood said. “He was the bishop of a small church in Brooklyn and a self-described businessman. He was a friend to the mayor of New York City,” she added.

Lamor Whitehead / Instagram

According to Jessica, Whitehead abused the trust of his congregation and lied to them about knowing powerful figures in Hollywood all so he could get his little greedy hands on their money.

She added that the saddening part is that he targeted an elderly mother of one of his parishioners and convinced her to give him $90K of her life savings.

According to Daily News, “He promised to use the money to buy a fixer-upper home that he would renovate for her to live in. And she believed the defendant — a man, who by that time, had become a mentor and spiritual adviser to her son.”

However, the Bishop opt for designer clothes and a BMW instead. The news outlet added that Whitehead even tried to extort a car repair man for a $5K job, and he also created fake bank documents to get a $250,000 loan.

The news has since gone viral on social media, garnering lots of reactions from folks online. “He got himself caught by falling in love with social media,” a netizen commented.

“I KNEWWWW IT!!! them tithes and offering was paying for that GUCCI he got on lawdddd,” another person wrote. “That’s one HELL of a sentence,” someone else added.