Bishop Lamor Whitehead, the politically connected Brooklyn pastor and self-described mentee of Mayor Adams, was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday for swindling a parishioner’s mother out of her life savings and other scams.
Whitehead received a total of 12 years — nine years on four counts, plus another three years on a single count — but the sentence will run concurrently.
He had requested no time before the term was handed down in Manhattan federal court.
A jury in March found the pastor from Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Canarsie guilty of five counts, including wire fraud, attempted extortion, lying to the FBI, and related charges connected to three separate schemes that saw him bilk tens of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims.
Prosecutors, at trial, said he abused the trust of his loyal churchgoers in the small Brooklyn community and dangled his ties to the mayor to reap new money-making opportunities.
Adams was not accused of wrongdoing in the case.
This developing story will be updated.
