Yesterday, Brooklyn Lamor Whitehead was convicted of fraud, attempted extortion, and lying to the FBI for defrauding an elderly woman out of her retirement savings.
The indictment alleges he conned a woman out of $90,000 after telling her he would buy her a home and renovate it with her cash. Instead, authorities say he bought fancy clothes and other luxury items with the woman’s money.
Whitehead also allegedly extorted a businessman for $5,000 and asked him for a $500,000 loan in exchange for using his influence with New York City mayor Eric Adams, according to the indictment.
“Lamor Whitehead abused the trust placed in him by a parishioner, bullied a businessman for $5,000, then tried to defraud him of far more than that, and lied to federal agents,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said on Monday. “His campaign of fraud and deceit stops now.”
Whitehead is scheduled to be sentenced on July 1 and faces a long stretch in prison.
