A Brooklyn Pastor known for his flashy clothing and checkered legal past, Lamor Whitehead has been accused of stealing $90,000 in retirement savings from one of his own congregants.
It could be recalled that the embattled Pastor recently made headlines when he and his wife were robbed at gunpoint during a worship service at Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. The church’s livestream captured the robbery, wherein an estimated $1 million worth of jewelry was stolen.
The Pastor is offering a $50,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of the suspects.
In a shocking development, it has now been revealed through a lawsuit filed last year that Whitehead has been accused of stealing $90,000 from 56-year-old Pauline Anderson, a congregant at Whitehead’s church. It was alleged that Anderson gave Whitehead the entirety of her retirement fund after Whitehead promised to help her purchase a home. Reports said Anderson had been previously unable to secure a loan because of bad credit.
The lawsuit posited that Anderson was first introduced to Whitehead in 2020 through her son, Rasheed, whom Whitehead had previously helped to secure housing.
Sharing her ordeal, Anderson said that she was at first skeptical about handing over her retirement funds to Whitehead, but ultimately decided he was trustworthy because of his role as a pastor. She allegedly gave him the $90,000 in November 2020.
It was alleged that the agreement Whitehead made with Anderson entailed the Pastor’s promise to purchase and renovate a monthly allowance of $100 from those funds to cover her personal expenses.
In her claims, Anderson said Whitehead only made one payment to her in January 2021, subsequently telling her that her money was tied up in investments related to his election campaign for Brooklyn borough president.
Later, Whitehead allegedly told Anderson that the funds she had given him constituted “a donation,” and he therefore had no obligation to pay Anderson back.
The the lawsuit said Whitehead accidentally emailed Rasheed a contract to purchase a $4.4 million home for himself in Saddle River, New Jersey, the down payment of which Rasheed suspected would be funded by his mother’s retirement savings.
It was stated that the sale never went through but Whitehead did go on to purchase a $4.5 million apartment complex in Hartford, Connecticut.
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