A jury in New York has convicted Nigeria lawyer and Deeper Life Bible Church pastor, Ifeanyichukwu Eric Abakporo, on charges of fraud.

Consequently, Pastor Eric Abakporo could spend a maximum term of about 30 years in prison when he is finally sentenced on November 12, 2013.

According to Sahara Reporters, Abakporo was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and bank fraud. The first and third charges each carry a maximum of 30 years in jail, while wire fraud carries a maximum of 20 years.

Abakporo’s co-conspirator, Latanya Pierce, who was also found guilty on all three counts, faces the same predicament. She will be sentenced separately on December 9, 2013.

Last February, a grand jury of the United States District Court Southern District of New York indicted Abakporo and Pierce on the charges, and recommended that they forfeit to the government a wide variety of properties related to their offences, as well as a sum of money representing the approximate amount of proceeds obtained as a result of the offences.
The jury trial of the suspects took place on July 26 before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, and the guilty verdict was rendered as early as 1:00pm. Ms. Pierce is currently out on bail, but Abakporo was remanded in custody.

It would be recalled that the superseding indictment [Case 1:12-cr-00340-SAS filed on January 24, 2013] charged that between 2003 and 2012, Abakporo and Pierce, who owned or controlled several real estate-related businesses, worked together to defraud financial institutions and mortgage lenders, property owners, property buyers and others of real property, mortgage loan proceeds, and monies related to real property transactions.

As part of their fraudulent scheme, the indictment said, Abakporo and Pierce used straw purchasers and borrowers to buy properties using mortgage loans from financial institutions and mortgage lenders, and caused false and fraudulent documents and information to be submitted to those financial institutions and mortgage lenders.

The properties involved were said to include:

1. 99 – 21 215th Street, Queens, New York

2. 50 Carnegie Avenue, Elmont, New York

3. 143 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York

4. 1308 Caton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

5. 1070 Saint Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan, New York

6. 215 – 11, 111th Road, Cambria Heights, New York, and

7. 101 – 24 197th Street, Hollis, New York 11423

In a previous indictment, the story was also told of how Abakporo defrauded a 78-year old American lady, swindling her out of her property.

“Through lies and deception, these individuals abused the trust of an elderly woman in order to perpetrate a multimillion dollar fraud,” New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, vowing they would face justice.

In May 2012, the federal prosecutor's office announced the arrest of Abakporo and Pierce for swindling the elderly lady out of her apartment building and stiffing a bank from whom they fraudulently obtained a $1.8 million mortgage loan.

If that story is true then its good to fully point out that the said pastor was not representing the deeper life church or its teachings at that time & he never acted on behalf of deeper life but rather in respect of his personal business.
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However its not unheard of that such story usually ends up being an allegation.Yes there are secretly bad pastors & members also in deeper life but I respect the integrity of the good ones.

Pastor soosi deeper eleyi mo badoo o!