
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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'I feel Like God Has His Hands on Me,' Says Teen B-Ball Star Who Lost Entire Family in Two Separate Plane Crashes
In the first plane crash in 2003, his mother, brother and sister died. He and his father survived. Eight years later in 2011, Austin Hatch, 18, was sitting right next to his pilot father when their plane went down again. This time he was the only survivor.

Brazilian Student, Catarina Migliorni, Who Sold Her Virginity for $780K Last Year Is Selling it Again; Wants $1.5 Million This Time
A Brazilian student who auctioned then sold her virginity online for $780,000 last year is auctioning it again and hopes to get $1.5 million for it this time around.
This Jean Claude Van Damme Split for Volvo Is Perhaps the Most Incredible Car Commercial You'll Ever See; And It's Real (Watch Video)
The stunt is so incredibly perfect that many have doubted its authenticity, but Volvo has declared that its new viral online commercial featuring actor Jean Claude Van Damme doing an epic split between two moving Volvo FM trucks is real.

Teen Jailed 3 Years for Robbery He Didn't Commit, Then Judge Dismisses Case With Not Even an Apology
A young New York City man wrongfully accused of robbery wasted more than three years of his life behind bars on Rikers Island until a judge recently dismissed the charges against him, setting him free without even an apology.

Christianity Is 'a Generation Away From Extinction" in Britain, Says Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Unless the church makes a substantial breakthrough in attracting young people back to the faith, Christianity in Britain is just "a generation away from extinction," says former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey.

Pastor Outraged After Costco Labels Bibles '$14.99 Fiction'
A California pastor is now expressing outrage at a Costco in Simi Valley, Calif., after he stumbled upon a shelf in the store that had Bibles on display as "$14.99 Fiction" while shopping for a gift for his wife last Friday.

Hip-Hop Loving Florida GOP Congressman Trey Radel Busted in Washington Cocaine Sting; Admits to Being an Alcoholic
Hip-hop loving freshman GOP congressman from Florida Trey Radel, 37, who once boasted he would "kill it" in an old school rap battle with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was busted buying cocaine during a federal investigation into a Washington, D.C., drug ring last month and has been charged with cocaine possession.

Is the Pay That Bad? Cleveland Walmart Asks Associates to Donate Food to Needy Colleagues so They Can Have Thanksgiving Dinner
Management at a Cleveland branch of Walmart, America's largest food chain, sparked a fierce debate over whether employee compensation is too low after a food drive was started at the branch to make sure the neediest of the store's workers had enough to eat for Thanksgiving.

Off-Duty NYPD Officer Nearly Beaten to Death in Front of His Screaming Wife as Spectators Laugh and Record Incident
Even after NYPD Sgt. Mohammed Deen, 40, appeared to have been knocked unconscious, his attacker kept pummeling his face with his fists, kicked him repeatedly and banged his head on the street outside a restaurant and bar in Queens, N.Y., as his wife watched and screamed helplessly in horror.

Kentucky's Walter White: Pastor Accused of Being Drug Kingpin; Used Church as Den for Multi-Million Dollar, Multi-State Trafficking Ring
Respected Kentucky pastor of Holiness Tabernacle Church in Olive Hill, Scott Gilliam, shocked neighbors in his community last Friday when police arrested and charged him with being a kingpin in what investigators have billed the largest pill trafficking ring in that state's history.



















