Lamor Whitehead, a Brooklyn pastor who gained notoriety earlier this year after he was robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry mid-sermon, was arrested Monday on fraud and extortion charges.
that one of his parishioners, 56-year-old Pauline Anderson, was suing him, alleging he “fraudulently induced [her] to liquidate her entire life savings to pay him the investment of $90,000, promising to use the funds to purchase and renovate a house for her.” That alleged incident appeared to be at the heart of one of the accusations in the federal indictment.
Federal prosecutors said Whitehead used the money he’d stolen from a parishioner “to purchase thousands of dollars of luxury goods and clothing.”
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