Brooklyn’s Bling Bishop Ordered to Take His Flamboyance to Prison

Lamor Whitehead, the flashy Brooklyn pastor best known for rocking Gucci suits and being robbed of his expensive jewelry on a church livestream, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for swindling a parishioner and extorting a businessman to fund his flamboyant lifestyle.

It’s the second time Whitehead, whom New York Mayor Eric Adams once called a “mentor, brother, and friend,” will do prison time. He did six years for identity theft in 2017 and credited his time in prison for bringing him closer to God.

Whitehead, 45, formed a small Brooklyn church called Leaders of Tomorrow Ministry once he got out of prison but prosecutors arrested him in late 2022 for allegedly convincing a female parishioner to part with $90,000 from her retirement savings that would be used to get her a home and invest in his real-estate business. The money was instead spent on designer duds and other luxury goods.

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