{"id":74,"date":"2023-11-15T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=74"},"modified":"2024-10-02T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T19:02:58","slug":"bishop-lamor-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/bishop-lamor-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Lamor Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Many New Yorkers got their first glimpse of Bishop Lamor Whitehead in May 2022, when he tried to contact Mayor Eric Adams while attempting to negotiate<\/a> the surrender of a gunman who killed a man on the Q train. He claimed he had known Adams for years<\/a> and that Adams was a mentor to him, something Adams didn’t deny. (The brokered surrender never happened, though Adams was reportedly mulling it<\/a>.) A few months later, Whitehead was robbed during a sermon in Canarsie<\/a>, where gunmen took off with high-priced jewelry, all captured on a livestream of the service. Just days after that, the CITY reported that a parishioner of Whitehead’s Canarsie-based ministry had sued him<\/a>, claiming that he defrauded her out of her life savings. Whitehead denied the accusations to the Daily News<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a busy few months for Whitehead, and underlying it all was the question: Just how well did Eric Adams know this self-proclaimed “bishop” who had served prison time for grand larceny and identity fraud when he was younger? The answer, as pieced together by reporters over the next few months, was that Whitehead wasn’t lying\u2014while Adams was borough president, the two had spent a lot of time working together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whitehead’s father, Arthur Miller, was killed by police officers in Crown Heights in 1978. Adams said that history is what drew him to Whitehead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs a Black man, I have an obligation to mentor other Black men that have had negative encounters in their lives,\u201d Adams told reporters in 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n