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Brooklyn’s ‘Bling Bishop’ Says He Was Slandered in New Yorker Article

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Lamor Whitehead filed a $200 million lawsuit against a businessman who says he’s a shakedown artist in cahoots with the mayor.

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Brooklyn’s so-called Bling Bishop, who was robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry during a livestreamed sermon last year, says he was slandered by a local businessman who said the storefront preacher told him he had City Hall and New York Mayor Eric Adams “in my back pocket.”

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