He’s trading Dior duds for a prison jumpsuit.
“Bling Bishop” Lamor Whitehead was sent to federal lockup Monday for allegedly flashing confidential case documents and making veiled threats against an accuser in violation of a restraining order, according to court records.
Prosecutors said last week that Whitehead — who was out while awaiting sentencing on a March conviction of fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI — broke the order when he showed off the case files in an April 30 video, according to federal court filings.
The flamboyant 45-year-old Brooklyn pastor also used a Bible psalm to try to intimidate Pauline Anderson, an elderly woman he scammed out of $90,000, Manhattan federal prosecutors said last week.
“Touch not my anointed,” Whitehead allegedly said, quoting Psalms 105 to imply that he’s beyond criticism because he’s a pastor.
Whitehead tried to rebut the claims in court — wearing a $3,300 outfit to the hearing May 13 — by telling Judge Lorna G. Schofield that he “did not willfully try to disturb any protective order.”
He also claimed he thought the case files had been unsealed after his trial.
“I didn’t know those documents would put me in this position,” he said.
The garish defendant’s appeals do not appear to have swayed the judge, who put him behind bars after his Monday morning bond revocation hearing.
His defense attorney didn’t immediately comment.
Earlier this year, a Manhattan jury found the stylish preacher guilty of not only scamming Anderson, the elderly mother of a parishioner, but also of trying to extort thousands from a Bronx body shop owner to whom Whitehead promised “official favors” from Mayor Eric Adams.
Prosecutors said at the opening of trial that Whitehead is a “conman who told lie after lie to victim after victim.”
Whitehead, of the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Canarsie, convinced Anderson to invest her retirement money in a house he claimed he’d buy for her, then fix up.
Instead, he blew the money on personal luxuries from Louis Vuitton, Footlocker and BMW, prosecutors said.
He also tried to get body shop owner Brandon Belmonte to lend him half-a-million dollars in return for favors from the mayor.
Whitehead told Belmonte that Adams was a mentor, and would “do whatever I wanted,” prosecutors said.
But his constellation of lies caught up with him when the feds collared him in December 2022.
Whitehead’s sentencing was scheduled for July 1. He faces up to 85 years behind bars, according to prosecutors.