Brooklyn pastor 'Bling Bishop' sent financial fraud schemes that included stealing tens of thousands

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uskaBrooklyn pastor 'Bling Bishop' sentenced to 9 years in prison for fraud, extortion
A flamboyant Brooklyn bishop, widely known as the “Bling Bishop,” was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for financial fraud schemes that included stealing tens of thousands from a parishioner and trying to extort a businessman, federal prosecutors said.
Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead, 45, was convicted in March of two counts of wire fraud, one count of attempted wire fraud, and one count of attempted extortion, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He was also found guilty of one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement agents.
Miller-Whitehead’s convictions stemmed from three separate schemes, in which prosecutors said he stole millions of dollars.
Lamor Whitehead is a con man who stole millions of dollars in a string of financial frauds and even stole from one of his own parishioners,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “He lied to federal agents, and again to the Court at his trial. Today’s sentence puts an end to Whitehead’s various schemes and reflects this Office’s commitment to bring accountability to those who abuse their positions of trust.”
In addition to Miller-Whitehead’s prison sentence, prosecutors said the 45-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $85,000 in restitution and forfeit $95,000.
Miller-Whitehead was a bishop at the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries church in Canarsie, Brooklyn, which he helped form after serving five years in prison for identity theft and grand larceny.
He was known for his flashy lifestyle and lived in a $1.6 million mansion in Paramus, New Jersey. Miller-Whitehead also owned several apartment buildings in Hartford, Connecticut.
The bishop made headlines in July 2022 when armed assailants robbed him and his wife during a live-streamed church service. At the time, police said Miller-Whitehead was robbed of $1 million worth of jewelry.