A certain Mrs. Maryrose Ozoemena Nwadike, said to be a younger sister to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Chris Ngige, in the Anambra State governorship election was said to have been debarred from practicing law in Maryland, the United States for allegedly using her bank account to launder money for one of her elder brothers, presumed to be Chris.

Nwadike was consequently debarred after a Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission was said to have found her guilty for using her escrow account to launder vast sums of money for the said brother and for lying to investigators and the judge when questioned about it.


In the highlight of the commission’s decision, it was stated that the “Respondent claimed that $349,975 wired into her Attorney Trust Account on August 2005 came from (unspecified) personal injury cases and form attorney’s fees and reimbursed expenses in the Dr Ngige Election Tribunal Case(s) in Nigeria.”


The documents of the long trial and investigation, outlined a vast array of infringements and “four year pattern of commingling funds which the Respondent claimed she used in paying for her personal expenses as intentional misappropriation.”
A rather shocking part of the revelation was an alleged disbursement of a staggering sum of $349,975 for bringing a homeless American to delay Ngige's stay in office.


[b]All this was said to have happened at the time the APC candidate was busy selling himself off as the messiah opposed to looting of the state’s treasury by the godfathers and that he was suffering persecution for his principled stand.
In a detailed rendering of the sleaze that Ngige allegedly orchestrated in office through his sister in the US, one of the documents obtained from the courts in Maryland, a copy of which was obtained by THISDAY stated thus:


“Respondent produced only copies of deposit slips and customer receipts from 21 March 2003 through 7 June 2006, monthly bank statements from 1 August 2003 through 31 May 2006, and disbursed checks from 25 April 2003 through 22 May 2006 related to the trust account. Respondent never produced any requested billing statements, ledger cards, or accounting of funds that she received, maintained, and disbursed from her trust account during this period.


“Respondent claimed to have received several deposits, totaling $110,493, in her attorney trust account slated to be transferred to the Ngige campaign, but she failed to provide an accounting reflecting these deposits. The record shows that, on 29 August 2005, she deposited a $120,000 personal check for which Judge Dugan found she offered again no logical or coherent accounting.


“Respondent also transferred $50,000 into her attorney trust account in September 2005, funds which she claimed belonged to Ngige. From 2002 to 2006, Respondent disbursed from the account a total of $134,312.85 prior to making deposits necessary to fund those disbursements. When asked by Bar Counsel to explain several specific instances of this practice, Respondent replied to each inquiry that each premature disbursement was due to an "administrative glitch[/b]."

A witness, Anthony Isama, testified that three suspect debits on Respondent's trust account paid to American Express, totaling $7,820, and one check issued from the account to "MBNA," for $35,600, were payments for credit card purchases Respondent made for Ngige's wife. Meanwhile, a further $50,000 cash withdrawal Respondent made from her account on December 4, 2002 was never explained.


In addition, Respondent's refusal even to identify forthrightly Christopher Ngige as her brother was evasive, at best. Respondent stated disingenuously that Ngige merely was "somebody's name."
Even though Ngige was not a client of the Respondents, she asserted an attorney-client privilege and refused to explain her relationship to him. When Isama testified that Ngige is Respondent's brother, Judge


Dugan asked Respondent why she had engaged in such "subterfuge." Respondent kept mute. However, there are speculations that Ngige might be extradited to the US to answer questions arising from the case.

talktimi: So Ngige is also a thief ? HAA !!! The progressives really chose well o jare

egift: Yeye report. It is not working. Fidelity Bank and the Chickens should manufacture a working allegation with unexpired spices and teeth.

egift:
The falsehood they manufactured on the "Catholic Priest being slapped", was even more articulate than this garbage - Yet even that one was busted and plated in your face.

Abeg modify the publication, the deception is not sticking

meine: Next headline i will probably see is "Ngige rapes the Pope's first daughter" or better still "Ngige caught on video with Boko Haram leader Shekau".......jobless people

pullyacap: Stoopid and irascible people! All they can do is dig up fictitious dirt on Ngige, a style which is not working

A man who left Govt house 7years ago and has contested several elections without as much as an EFCC invite since 2006

Just because they are scare-stiff of him now,they brought another silly story

The fear of Ngige is obviously the beginning of Obi's hypertension!!!

nameo:

This is a report from Thisday Newspapers quoting and using Documents obtained from a US State public record, my brother.

This is as solid as they come

egift:
The falsehood they manufactured on the "Catholic Priest being slapped", was even more articulate than this garbage - Yet even that one was busted and plated in your face.

Abeg modify the publication, the deception is not sticking

nameo:

This is a report from Thisday Newspapers quoting and using Documents obtained from a US State public record, my brother.

This is as solid as they come

DerideGull:


Few people that have the privilege to know about such information already informed number of dead woods on this forum that Ngige is as corrupt as police officers on Nigerian roads.

hercules07: Thisday is partisaan, but, we will not dismiss the allegation, let them show us the documents just as Sahara Reporters did.

“Respondent produced only copies of deposit slips and customer receipts from 21 March 2003 through 7 June 2006, monthly bank statements from 1 August 2003 through 31 May 2006, and disbursed checks from 25 April 2003 through 22 May 2006 related to the trust account. Respondent never produced any requested billing statements, ledger cards, or accounting of funds that she received, maintained, and disbursed from her trust account during this period.


“Respondent claimed to have received several deposits, totaling $110,493, in her attorney trust account slated to be transferred to the Ngige campaign, but she failed to provide an accounting reflecting these deposits. The record shows that, on 29 August 2005, she deposited a $120,000 personal check for which Judge Dugan found she offered again no logical or coherent accounting.


“Respondent also transferred $50,000 into her attorney trust account in September 2005, funds which she claimed belonged to Ngige. From 2002 to 2006, Respondent disbursed from the account a total of $134,312.85 prior to making deposits necessary to fund those disbursements. When asked by Bar Counsel to explain several specific instances of this practice, Respondent replied to each inquiry that each premature disbursement was due to an "administrative glitch."

taharqa2:

Show you Documents, how??

Has Excepts of one of the incriminating Documents not been shown to you:

wesley80: APC'S e-rats battling a bit too hard to rubbish a legitimate and incontrovertible report. Here's where you earn your pay, you guys better try derailment since dismissing the report obviously isnt working.

hercules07:

If it is true that she was laundering money for Ngige, then EFCC should go after Ngige and Anambra people should also make up their mind if they want someone who has laundered money to be their governor.