Lamor Whitehead, the politically-connected “Bling Bishop” of Brooklyn who was convicted on a slate of fraud charges last month, is pleading for his release from the borough’s infamous , where his lawyer alleges he has been deprived of food and kept in a near-constant lockdown due a gun recently being found in another inmate’s cell. Whitehead was after a judge revoked his bond and ordered him detained pending sentencing on the grounds that he had kept making false claims about federal prosecutors and FBI agents after his conviction. The pastor, a of Mayor Adams known for his flashy fashion choices, is scheduled to be sentenced June 17, and he could face decades in prison under federal guidelines.
But in a Monday memo filed in , Whitehead’s attorney, Dawn Florio, alleged her client deserves to receive a sentence of supervised release. Among other reasons, Florio argued leniency is warranted because Whitehead has been confined to his cell “for the overwhelming majority of his time” at the MDC — allegedly in part due to a gun recently being found in another inmate’s cell. “Almost as soon as Mr.
Whitehead entered the facility, it went on lockdown as a loaded and operable firearm was found in an inmate’s cell,” Florio wrote, calling conditions in the jail “shocking and unacceptable.” It wasn’t clear from Florio’s filing exactly when a gun may have been found. She didn’t immediately return a request for comment from the Daily News on Tuesday.
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