*Bishop Lamor Whitehead has been accused of using fake bank records to secure a mortgage for his million-dollar mansion in Paramus, NJ.
According to multiple reports, the flashy bishop falsified financial documents to secure business loans, per an indictment filed in Manhattan Federal court.
The pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow allegedly told the bank that his company, Anointing Management Services LLC, had $2 million saved up but actually only had $10, the Feds claim, MadameNoire reports.
Whitehead was denied the loan several times, but he continued to submit fraudulent financial documents until February 2019, “including in an application for a $1.3 million mortgage to fund the purchase of his six-bedroom, seven-bath Paramus, N.J., mansion,” according to the report.
The preacher has pled not guilty to four of the five fraud-related charges leveled against him.
“We are going to be fighting those allegations,” Whitehead’s lawyer, Dawn Florio, said. “Lamor Whitehead will be pleading not guilty when he is arraigned on the … indictment and denies those charges.”
These latest charges come after Whitehead, who was robbed while preaching at his church this past summer, was arrested in December on federal charges for allegedly defrauding a parishioner, trying to extort a businessman, and lying to the FBI, according to a federal indictment.
We reported previously, citing CNN, that Whitehead allegedly defrauded one of his parishioners out of about $90,000 from her retirement savings over the course of at least 14 months beginning around April 2020, according to the indictment.
The document said Whitehead told the parishioner he would use her money to help her buy a home and invest the rest of the money but instead used it “to purchase thousands of dollars of luxury goods and clothing” and “for his own purposes.”
He faces up to 65 years in prison if convicted.
