Controversial Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead proclaimed his innocence to newly filed federal fraud and extortion costs Tuesday in a weird Instagram rant urging supporters, “Don’t drink the Kool-Help.”
“The bishop shouldn't be responsible, and I’m gonna combat it,” Whitehead, 44, declared in the course of the 15-minute Instagram video, which reveals him sitting on a luxurious white sofa in entrance of two studio portraits of himself.
“Ain’t nothing modified. I’m nonetheless the identical bishop,” he stated. “And I’ll say it once more. Simply since you had been arrested doesn’t make you responsible. Don’t drink the Kool-Help. I’m telling you all. You drunk it already. Don’t drink it once more. Give it time.”
Whitehead, who retreated to his gaudy New Jersey McMansion after being launched on a $500,000 bond late Monday, likened his present dilemma to the fallout from his claims that he was robbed at gunpoint throughout a reside sermon in July.
Critics questioned whether or not the pastor staged the theft — till two males had been charged.
“I would like you to simply perform some research,” Whitehead stated on Instagram Tuesday. “Don’t let the media form your thoughts. Ya’ll did that when my church bought robbed.
“Y’all allowed the media, ya’ll allowed what individuals stated, ya’ll allowed the issues that they introduced up, ya’ll allowed every little thing to confuse you,” he stated. “Do your analysis.”
The flamboyant minister, who has a penchant for designer garments, shiny jewellery and motors round city in a Rolls Royce, has been embroiled in controversy for years.
Whereas boasting a friendship with Mayor Eric Adams, Whitehead was convicted in state court docket of identification theft costs in 2006 and served seven years in jail.
Within the new federal indictment, he's charged with bilking a parishioner out of $90,000 supposed to purchase her a brand new house and extorting $5,000 from a neighborhood businessman.
He’s additionally going through quite a few civil lawsuits.
Regardless of the brand new authorized problem, Whitehead remained defiant, describing himself as, “a person of excellence, a person of integrity.”
“And if I wasn’t a person of God the enemy wouldn’t be combating me like he's,” Whitehead stated. “So, I would like you guys to maintain me in your prayers and in addition I’m not listening to the noise.
“Ya’ll did that to me earlier than,” he continued. “All the bloggers all people with their very own means of telling the story. That don’t matter to me. I’m not supplying you with no gentle.”
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