Brooklyn bishop robbed of $1M in jewelry defends reputation amid series of controversies

Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead speaks at a press conference in Canarsie on Friday.staunchly defended himself and denounced the media coverage he’s received amid a series of week-long controversies.

The news conference caps a week of controversies for Whitehead, who was robbed at gunpoint while delivering a sermon at the Leaders of Tomorrow International Churches in Canarsie. The NYPD says thieves took off with over $1 million in jewelry, a value Whitehead disputed on Friday.he made on an Instagram Live channel. He later apologized.

“Everybody is setting the narrative that all of this, there was a million dollars, it was $400,000, all that garbage, nobody can quote that I said any of that,” he said. “But to sell newspapers and to sell media, y'all put whatever number you want on its face and I don't get the opportunity to defend myself.”

Whitehead never sent her the monthly allowances, and eventually said he was under no obligation to return it to her, the lawsuit alleges. Instead, according to the complaint, he used the money as a down payment for a $4.4 million mansion in Saddle River, New Jersey. At the press conference Friday Whitehead called the claims in the suit false, and the dismissal a victory, but would not elaborate further.

because if you got money for that you got money to uplift the people you preach to.

So I guess the bankruptcy court can't seize a million dollars worth of his jewels. Convenient that it happened on camera

Larcenous bishop gets robbed. Tables turned. Didn’t his parishioners believe they were contributing to those in need of basic essentials, not those in need of more diamonds and gold?

Whatever you say preacher

Hadn’t he been arrested for fraud?

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