Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Man Dies Trying to Save Cell Phone That Fell Into River, Other Man Injured, Woman Missing After Trying to Save Him
A 26-year-old Minnesota man is now dead, another man is injured, and a woman is now missing and presumed dead, all because of a phone that accidentally fell into the icy Chicago River early Monday.
Catholic Woman Sues Lawyers Because They Didn't Tell Her That Divorce Would End Her Marriage
A British Catholic woman who claims she didn't know that finalizing her divorce proceedings would lead to the end of her marriage recently attempted to sue her former lawyers for professional negligence, charging that they did not consider her faith in the process.
Retired 71-Y-O Police Captain Shoots Man and His Wife for Texting Toddler Daughter at Movie Theater; Wife Tried Blocking Bullet
A retired Tampa, Fla., police officer has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of a man and the injury of his wife inside a movie theater following an argument over the man texting his toddler daughter on Monday.
Government Paid 'Obscene and Insulting' $1/4 Billion on Penis Pumps in 10 Years, Gov't Report Shows
In a splurge health policy experts have called "obscene and insulting" taxpayers spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on vacuum erection systems (VES) popularly known as "penis pumps" in the last 10 years through Medicare according the Health and Human Services Inspector General.
Man Claims He Murdered, Ate Devout Christian Landlord's Heart in Row Over Chess Match; Body Discovered With Missing Lung
In what is being described as Ireland's most gruesome murder of 2014, an Italian man claims he murdered then ate his devout Christian landlord's heart during a row over a chess match. But a post mortem revealed the missing body part is a lung.
Justin Bieber Could Be Charged With Felony for Using Eggs to Wreak $20K Damage on Neighbor's House
Pop singer Justin Bieber went on an expletive-filled egg-throwing attack on his neighbors' house, causing $20,000 in damage last Thursday. Detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff's office believe the singer is likely to be slapped with a felony charge.
Pharmacist Alleges She Tumbled Out of Police Car Because She Was Being Sexually Assaulted; Loses All Her Teeth, Found Undressed From Waist Down
A 27-year-old pharmacist who reportedly lost all her teeth after tumbling out of a moving LAPD squad car last year has alleged in a lawsuit that the incident happened because she was being sexually assaulted while she was in handcuffs by her arresting officer.
Pope Francis Causes Stir for Baptizing 'Unmarried' Couple's Baby in Sistine Chapel; Tells Mothers It's OK to Breastfeed in Church
Pope Francis got hit with both praise and criticism this past weekend for baptizing the child of parents considered "unmarried" by the Catholic Church and encouraging mothers to breastfeed in the Sistine Chapel.
Man Who Survived 47-Floor Plunge Now Walks for Charity; 'Maybe It's a Gift God Gave Me' He Says
Medical experts said he should have died when he took a 47-story plunge in 2007 from a building caused by a freak accident in Manhattan, N.Y. Six years later, however, Alcides Moreno, 43, is like a walking miracle.
Husband's Snoring Saves Entire Family From Raging Fire That Burnt House to the Ground; Family Happy to Be Alive
A father and husband from Chapel Hill, Texas, is now giving thanks for his terrible snoring problem because he believes it was the reason his whole family woke up in the nick of time shortly after midnight, just before a raging fire burnt their house to the ground.
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