Bishop Lamor Whitehead Accused Of Submitting Phony Documents To Forcibly Evict Church Members From Building He Never Owned

Bishop Lamor Whitehead Accused Of Submitting Phony Documents To Forcibly Evict Church Members From Building He Never Owned

Lamor Whitehead, who reportedly has a close relationship with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, is at the center of some unholy allegations.

A lawsuit was filed on Friday (Apr. 28) in Brooklyn Supreme Court alleging that the infamous bishop submitted fictitious documents to claim ownership of a church property, whose flock he later evicted.

Before Whitehead changed the locks and drove the congregation of about 200 worshipers out of the location last December, Glory of God Global Ministry had been using the building for nearly 10 years.

According to the lawsuit, the property was bought by a trust owned by Maryland resident Michael Moses and his sister, Lydia, in February 2022 for $1.9 million at a tax sale auction.

Whitehead reportedly contacted the siblings (after they purchased the property) to express interest in buying the structure. According to the lawsuit, they permitted him the right to remove the current occupants while getting funding for the building.

Despite the fact that Whitehead never received financing, the lawsuit claims that in April he submitted a false new deed claiming ownership on behalf of himself and his church, Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Canarsie.

According to the lawsuit,

“The fraudulent deed was executed and recorded without the knowledge and or consent of Plaintiff Michael Moses, the Trustee of the Trust.”

Congregants who have prayed at the Foster Avenue facility since 2014 found themselves without a place of worship when the minister abruptly kicked them out as he attempted to acquire the building.

Pastor Joseph Williams, the congregation’s leader, said the lockout happened with no notice, recalling getting an alert from the church’s alarm system last December saying there’d been a break-in.

When Williams arrived at the church, he found the locks had been changed. He claimed police informed him that the building had a new owner and that he was unable to recover the congregation’s belongings still present inside the property. The ministry was forced to stop a weekly food pantry that had been serving 200 families every Saturday and rent out a new church venue for a number of months.

Williams said,

“It was so much on the members. It’s very devastating.”

However, Whitehead called the legal motion a “frivolous lawsuit” and said that the claim that he had filed a fake deed was unfounded. He is already charged on a federal level with defrauding one of his parishioners of her life savings. Prosecutors have also accused him of trying to coerce a businessman into granting him a $500,000 loan in exchange for “favorable actions” from New York City authorities and forging bank records to pay for his New Jersey mansion.

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Mayor Eric Adams previously called Whitehead — who has served time in prison for grand larceny and identity fraud — his “good friend and good brother” and his mentee. Their relationship came under scrutiny after Whitehead was robbed of $1 million in jewelry during a sermon last July.

In December, Glory of God Global Ministry sued Whitehead, arguing he had illegally evicted them. Civil Court Judge Sandra Roper ultimately sided in the ministry’s favor and issued an order restoring the building to its possession in January of this year.

The ministry is now suing $3.5 million in damages from Whitehead and his church, and for the city to void their deed.

But, in Whitehead’s opinion,

“They’re illegally occupying the building, and when we go back to court they’ll be removed,”

 

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