New York’s Bling Bishop’s Lamore Whitehead faces new fraud charge

Brooklyn “Brilliant Bishop” Lamore Whitehead has been charged with a new fraud charge, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Whitehead told the bank that his business had $2 million in coffers when he had less than $10, replacing an indictment filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

In June 2018, he applied for a $250,000 business loan for his company Anointing Management Services LLC and submitted fake banking documents in his online loan application, prosecutors said.

The Bishop, who drives a Rolls Royce, loves Gucci suits, and counts Mayor Adams among his friends, didn’t get the loan.

He continued to use fake documents until February 2019, including in a $1.3 million mortgage application to fund the purchase of his six-bedroom, seven-bath mansion in Paramus, New Jersey, at the hands of the feds.

The documents drawn up included a “completely fabricated bank account that did not actually exist,” altering statements to give the impression that the company had over $2 million, “when in fact during that time period [the business] had an average ending balance of less than ten dollars,” the indictment says.

Whitehead’s attorney, Don Florio, said he intends to fight the charges.

“Lamore Whitehead will not plead guilty when he is brought to trial. [superseding] indictment and denies these allegations,” Florio said.

Nick Bias, a spokesman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, declined to comment.

The new wire fraud charge adds to a list of criminal charges the feds filed against the 45-year-old Leaders of Tomorrow pastor in December, accusing him of swindling a retired parishioner out of tens of thousands of dollars, extorting a businessman and lying to the FBI.

Specifically, the feds say Whitehead convinced one of his parishioners to invest about $90,000 of her retirement savings into it to help her buy a house. Instead, he allegedly used them to buy designer clothes and other luxury items.

Whitehead is accused of extorting $5,000 from a Bronx businessman and trying to squeeze another $500,000 in real estate deals in exchange for using his connections in the city government.

He is also accused of lying to federal authorities when the FBI came in with a search warrant on an unspecified date, and Whitehead said he had no other cell phones other than the one he carried.

Following the allegations, Mayor Adams, who identified himself as Whitehead’s mentor, had previously said he would stand by his friend.

“I have enforced the law for decades and expect everyone to follow it,” Adams said in December. “I have also dedicated my life to helping people with a difficult past. While these allegations are troubling, I will refrain from further comment until the process reaches its final conclusion.”

The press service of the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new allegations.

In September, Whitehead and his wife were robbed of flashy jewelry at gunpoint while preaching at his church in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

Shocking footage of the robbery showed Whitehead being stunned by three armed thugs as he stops his sermon and crouches to lie on the floor. The trio escaped with $1 million worth of jewelry stolen from him and his wife after they stuck a gun in the face of the bishop’s 8-month-old daughter.

A few months earlier, in May, Whitehead had tried to broker a deal to extradite Andrew Abdullah, who is accused of the fatal murder of Goldman Sachs researcher Daniel Henriquez on the Q train.

During an Instagram live on Wednesday, Bishop said the feds should be careful because God has his back.

“To everyone who is praying for me, thanks man. And to everyone who wants me to fall, thank you – because the Bible says God says, “I will make your enemies your footstool,” Whitehead said. “You must be careful when touching an elephant; even if you feel that I am not alone, I am alone. And if you become an enemy of God, that’s right, it’s on you.”

Whitehead has pleaded not guilty to four of the five counts he now faces and has been released from $500,000 bail.

With Chris Sommerfeldt