Larry Neumeister
Larry Neumeister is an author at Religion News Service.
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Brooklyn preacher who boasted of ties to NYC mayor gets 9 years in prison for multiyear fraud
By Larry Neumeister — June 18, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Lamor Miller-Whitehead, 45, of Paramus, New Jersey, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Lorna G. Schofield, who said she didn’t see meaningful remorse from the Rolls Royce-driving bishop convicted of fleecing one parishioner out of $90,000 in retirement savings, among other scams.
At trial’s start, prosecutor says Brooklyn preacher lied to get rich, a claim his lawyer disputes
By Larry Neumeister — February 27, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — In Manhattan federal court, Greenwood called Miller-Whitehead a “con man who told lie after lie to victim after victim, committing crime after crime.”
US prosecutors say plots to assassinate Sikh leaders were part of a campaign of planned killings
By Larry Neumeister — December 1, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — The attack plans were foiled, prosecutors said, because the hitman was actually an undercover U.S. agent.
An Indian official plotted to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York, US prosecutors say
By Ashok Sharma and Larry Neumeister — November 29, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — India had set up a high-level inquiry after U.S. authorities raised concerns with New Delhi that its government may have had knowledge of a plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader on American soil.
Vaccine mandate for NYC educators survives court challenge
By Karen Matthews, Marina Villeneuve, and Larry Neumeister — October 6, 2021
New York City's vaccination mandate for school staff survived a court challenge Tuesday while hospitals across the state reported few disruptions to their services due to the vaccine requirement for health care workers.
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