Deacon at Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church accused of duping parishioners out of more than $200,000 in undelivered home renovations

A deacon from the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church proved to be more flim-flam man than man of the cloth.

A pair of lawsuits filed earlier this month by parishioners at the Harlem house of God allege that Jerome Yeiser used his position in the church to dupe its members out of tens of thousands...