Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Bling Bishop - The Lamor Whitehead story
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
Lamor Whitehead, aka The Bling Bishop, a Brooklyn pastor known for his flamboyant lifestyle, was sentenced to nine years in prison in June 2024 for wire fraud, attempted wire fraud, attempted extortion, and making false statements. He defrauded parishioners, including misappropriating funds from a congregant's retirement savings. Whitehead also attempted to extort a businessman by falsely promising political favors.
Chapter 1: What is the story of Lamor Whitehead, the Bling Bishop?
So this preacher, you are gonna hate this preacher.
So I know you don't like me, but I'm divine.
Chapter 2: How did Lamor Whitehead begin his fraudulent activities?
Now his name is L'amour and L'amour works as a mortgage broker. And one day in 2004, he decides he wants to be rich. So, how's he gonna get rich? Well, see, L'amour is dating a woman who works at a car dealership, and she has access to all the customers' credit reports and personal information.
And so L'amour steals her work login info, and I guess, on his own computer, he uses it to access all the customers' information. And then he takes out loans and lines of credit in these customers' names. He then takes that money and he uses it to buy himself nice cars, nice clothes, jewelry. He buys himself a motorcycle. Oh, and he doesn't just steal the identity of one or two people.
He steals the identity of over 50 different people. Und er nimmt mehr als 2 Millionen Dollar in Lohnen. Und natürlich fangen die Leute dann auf und sie berichten ihn und bam, er wird verhaftet. Hier ist sein Mugshot. Und so spart er fünf Jahre in der Gefängnis und er macht nie wieder etwas schlechtes in seinem Leben. UNTIL... So while he's in prison, one day Lemore gets an idea.
Chapter 3: How did Lamor Whitehead establish his church and become a bishop?
I'm guessing he gets this idea in prison, I actually don't know where he got it. But at some point, Lemore realizes that he can really profit off of religion. So in 2013 he gets out. And within a few weeks of getting out, he sets up his own church. And he becomes the bishop of that church.
And he starts it out of his home with a small group of people and he eventually moves it to a more legitimate building space. Und natürlich, mit einem Mann wie L'Amour, was er betet, ist das Prosperitätsgospel, das suggeriert, dass reich sein, dich tatsächlich näher zu Himmel bringen wird. Gott hat mich entschieden, ein Precher zu sein.
Ihr denkt, ich will ein Precher sein? Ich bekomme nicht von Prechern bezahlt.
Chapter 4: How did Lamor Whitehead exploit his congregation for money?
Oh, er bekommt definitiv von Prechern bezahlt. Nicht nur das, er macht sicher, dass er seine Rechte vor seiner Congregation zeigen kann. Er spricht zu ihnen, mit tailor-made Designersuits, wie dieser oder dieser. Er trägt auch schöne Ringe und schaut, während er spricht. Selbst wenn er nicht in der Kirche ist, ist er immer in super teuren Designersuits.
So, where is he getting the money to pay for all this stuff? His congregation, of course. And he's not just allegedly skimming from the donations. No, no, no. It's way more direct than that. Like one day he calls up one elderly woman in his congregation and he cons her into handing over her retirement fund.
Like he tells her that he can improve her credit score and help her purchase and renovate a new home if she just invests with him. And she believes him and she hands over $90,000. And of course, instead of helping her improve her credit score or buy a house, L'Amour takes the money and he heads straight to Louis Vuitton. wo er sich einen neuen Drip bekommt.
Er setzt auch das Geld an, um auf einem BMW zu bezahlen. Und wie man sich vorstellen kann, nachdem er seine Kirche begonnen hat, wird L'amour der reichste Bischöfe auf der Straße. Wie wenn er in einem Rolls-Royce fährt. Er hat auch noch einen Rolls-Royce. Dieser hier kostet eigentlich 350.000 Dollar, übrigens. Er lebt auch in einem 9000 Quadratmeter-Maschinen.
und ich werde euch in meinen Betrachter-Kloset gehen. Das ist mein Betrachter-Kloset. Ich habe alle meine Priester-Tüten, Designer-Tüten, du nennst es, Gucci, Louis, du nennst es, Fendi, du nennst es. Designer-Tüten für Tage, für Tage, für Tage, für Tage, für Tage, für Tage, für Tage.
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Chapter 5: What was Lamor Whitehead's lavish lifestyle funded by?
Not only that, he's getting kind of a JV-Celebrity status from all this. And people start calling him the Bling Bishop. And from there, his Instagram blows up to 1.3 million followers. And known people start affiliating with him. Like, here's footage of 50 Cent speaking at his church. Here he is apparently hanging out with Fat Dick. Okay, but then something kind of crazy happens.
Something that starts to change everything. Eines Tages, im Jahr 2022, ist er vor seiner Kirche, betet oder was auch immer. Und das ist dann, als plötzlich, boom, drei Männer in Masken in das Gebäude fliegen und sie haben Piu-Pius. Und L'Amour streamt dieses Sermon live, damit man tatsächlich sehen kann, wie er merkt, dass diese Männer da sind, um ihn zu robben.
Wie viele von euch haben euer Glauben verloren, weil ihr gesehen habt, dass jemand anderes stirbt, was ihr durchgehen wolltet?
Yo, yo, alright, alright, alright. And you can see him here laying down on the floor and then you can see these men come up and rob him. And they apparently steal a million dollars worth of jewelry from the people there, including L'Amours watch and chain. His watch is a Rolex valued at $75,000. His chain is valued at $400,000. And he livestreams afterwards and talks about all this.
He took all of my wife's jewelry and took all of my jewelry and then they left.
And so like the story breaks and reporters are hitting him up and they're asking him if he's gonna wear less jewelry in church so that he's less likely to get robbed.
Are you gonna wear less bling so you're less of a target? I will wear what I've been blessed with by God when I feel like it.
Now police eventually end up catching the guys who did it. But this livestream footage of the robbery blows up. Because it's a crazy moment. A bishop getting robbed in the middle of a sermon on a livestream? Like what are the odds? And so this story ends up all over the news.
A Brooklyn Bishop was robbed at gunpoint in the middle of his Sunday sermon today and it was all caught on camera.
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