Wednesday 25 May 2022 01:46 AM The $350k Rolls Royce-driving ex-con pastor who negotiated NYC subway shooter ... trends now
The bling-bling bishop who showed up in a $350k Rolls Royce, while wearing a Fendi blazer, to negotiate the surrender of the subway shooting suspect wanted for killing a Goldman Sachs employee is an ex-convict who was jailed for five years for grand larceny and fraud before turning to his faith.
Lamor Miller-Whitehead, founder of the Leaders of the Tomorrow International Church, went to the Fifth Precinct in lower Manhattan on behalf of Andrew Abdullah, who is accused of shooting dead Daniel Enriquez on a platform of a Q train at Canal St Station on Sunday in an apparently unprovoked attack.
At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, beleaguered Mayor Eric Adams revealed he negotiated with Whitehead and told him to bring Abdullah in, after Abdullah turned up at a legal aid office in Tribeca. Abdullah then appeared at the station around an hour later. He was marched into the police station by two cops and was wearing a stained white t-shirt and cargo pants.
Whitehead, who is believed to have close ties with mayor Eric Adams since his days as Brooklyn Borough President due to his 'charity' work, is a former inmate who was locked up for five years at Sing Sing for multiple counts of identity fraud and grand larceny before his liberation in 2013.
Since then, he has founded the Brooklyn-based ministry, registered as a for-profit business since March 2014, and has been active in raising funds for it through self-created youth mentorship programs that have been rebuffed by NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
Bishop Lamor Miller Whitehead, an ex-convict, was seen wearing a Fendi suit jacket after arriving at the Fifth Precinct to 'negotiate' on behalf of the subway shooting suspect Andrew Abdullah on Tuesday
Lamor M Whitehead. pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow, a ministry of Brooklyn, spoke to the press outside the 5th Precinct where Andrew Abdullah was brought in for questioning. He is a close ally of NYC mayor Eric Adams
The $350,000 Rolls Royce that the minister arrived at the Fifth Precinct in Manhattan. Whitehead is also believed to have been seen in Brooklyn in a Bentley and Maserati
Whitehead, who was locked up five years behind bars for fraud and grand larceny, was ordained as a bishop in 2016 (pictured) two years after becoming a pastor
The pastor who describes himself as 'radical, revolutionary, innovative, anointed and cutting edge,' on his ministries website, is the founder of Leaders of Tomorrow church, which he founded in Brooklyn in 2013 - the same yea he got out of jail. He has a wife and two kids
Prior to his turn to religion, Whitehead was arrested in 2006, while wearing a mink jacket, for a brazen $2million identify-theft scam using the names of real people living in Brooklyn and Long Island.
He is vocal about his experience in jail although he has maintained that he was coerced by law enforcement officials.
Whitehead's charity activity is also known to be suspicious to authorities after the pastor claimed to have promoted a collaborative justice initiative with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2014. In November of that year, officials from the DA's office sent a cease-and-decease letter to Whitehead.
'There was never any partnership or initiative together with him and this office,' DA spokesman Oren Yaniv told The New York Post.
Two mugshots of Lamor Whitehead, who served five years of jail time Sing Sing for multiple counts of identity fraud and grand larceny before his release in 2013
Andrew Abdullah is accused of shooting dead Daniel Enriquez on the Manhattan-bound Q train on Sunday in an apparently unprovoked attack
