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Ishilove:
My thoughts and exactly

It’s not a coincidence’: journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push

djseanjohn77:
A person with fraud intent and scam in his blood is drive by GREED, not whether government is bad or not. A bad person is a bad person, a good person is a good person...... Everyone is just hiding under government inadequacies to commit their inherent traits.

I have been in abroad for over 13 years and i like my pace, i no dey do pass myself, i no dey shook eye for wetin i no fit buy and pay by myself. Nobody dey pursue me, i no dey do competition with anybody.

I have risen in my career to Managerial level, but i still see young people, those who are earning way less, trying to impress, living luxurious lifestyle. I know it's unsustainable, and sooner or later they will run into financial difficulty that will give them no choice than to commit crime. Every choices that you make today in abroad, will hunt you - You have to be smart financially.

ello29:
Stop travelling abroad to insulting us and put us in a negative way to tanish our image. You have failed us for being involved in such a crime and criminality.

Zocalite:
If not for internet, nobody go know, next she don become legislator

Let me tell you, credible means can't give you wealth in nigeria

Sirsunola:
she fit just be ordinary picker 😊

jiggyman:
Omo see mugshot! Nawa! Wowo People de shaaa

Nigerian Socialite Roseline Ajesola Arrested in North Carolina Over Alleged $247,000 Fra¥d Scheme

Authorities in Wake County, North Carolina, have arrested Roseline Iyewande Ajeshola, a Nigerian-American woman and well-known Lagos socialite, over allegations that she posed as a financial broker to defra¥d a victim of more than $247,000.

According to arrest warrants obtained from the Morrisville Police Department, Ajeshola, who resides in Katy, Texas, faces four felony counts of Obtaining Property by False Pretense, a Class C felony under North Carolina law.

Investigators allege that she misrepresented herself as a broker and instructed the victim to transfer large sums of money into a bank account she controlled, before allegedly forwarding the funds to another party.

Court documents list four transfers tied to the suspected scheme: $52,000, $130,000, $60,000, $5,000 The transactions reportedly occurred on February 26, 2025, totaling more than $247,000. Her arrest has drawn widespread attention online after her mugsh+t circulated on social media, while the case remains under investigation.

P1PrinceKT:
Why do you think you have the right to think for them? Do you think as you're right now, you're more educated than them?

StoryHaven:
Don't tell them na.
They want to show how compassionate they are.

In the next Five years, they'll start fighting for Sharia to be implemented.

In seven to ten years, Kaboooom! In Joburg.

Ka Ka ka boom, in Cape Town

Tra, ta ta ta tatata, In Soweto

Their eyes go clear by then.

KingDashx:
They can't shoot themselves they are on the same team

lionphil:
Nigerian Christians as always... Look beyond the picture.

LordReed:
Deported at age 60 to Nigeria without a dime. What a future to look forward to.

During the sentencing, Mae A. D’Agostino, US district judge, said Adekoya is “a perpetual thief” and a “flagrant serial offender” who has “orchestrated increasingly sophisticated felony identity-theft and fraud offences since he started his criminal career in 2008 at the age of 22”.

A United States court has sentenced Oluwaseun Adekoya, a 40-year-old Nigerian resident of New Jersey, to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a sprawling bank fraud and identity-theft scheme that targeted home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

Adekoya, who went by several aliases, including Ace G.. Broda, Legendary, Santa, Santana, Sammy LaBanco, Sean Maison, and Kiing_maison, was convicted earlier this year.

He was sentenced on December 1 after a three-week trial.

Adekoya obtained lawful permanent resident status in the US in 2004.

John Sarcone, acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York, described Adekoya as a fraudster who “abused the privilege of lawful permanent resident status to steal the identities of innocent Americans so he could live lavishly in our country, without an ounce of remorse”.


In a statement, the US attorney general’s office, Northern District of New York, said the investigation into Adekoya started in May 2022, when Broadview Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Albany, identified a series of impersonation transactions at its branches in the capital region and referred the case to the FBI-Albany

The ensuing investigation led to the discovery that Adekoya was the mastermind of the nationwide operations and to the prosecution of 13 additional coconspirators through a series of superseding indictments, all of whom pleaded guilty to their roles in the offences before trial,” the statement reads.

The defendant’s conspiracies were brought to a screeching halt by his federal arrest on an initial indictment on December 12, 2023.

“Evidence at trial showed that when the FBI attempted to enter the defendant’s luxury apartment on December 12, 2023, to execute a federal search warrant, Adekoya wiped the primary phone he had used to orchestrate the conspiracy.

“Nonetheless, the FBI seized numerous ‘burner’ phones used by Adekoya to perpetrate the charged crimes.

“The FBI also seized Rolex watches, a $51,000 Tiffany engagement ring, designer handbags and shoes, and approximately $26,000 in a bank account used by Adekoya to launder his proceeds.

“The government has since forfeited those items and others.”

THE FRAUD SCHEME


Prosecutors, who described Adekoya as a “career fraudster”, said from the comfort of his luxury apartment in New Jersey, he obtained publicly available information regarding people’s HELOCs at localised credit unions throughout the US, shifting his focus over time to different parts of the country to avoid law enforcement scrutiny.


He then utilised encrypted messaging platforms, such as Telegram, to obtain social security numbers, account numbers, mothers’ maiden names, and other personal identifying information (PII) for individuals he had identified as having substantial equity available in their HELOCs.

Adekoya then gave this information to a vast network of managers he recruited from all over the country, along with fake drivers’ licences for lower-level workers to use to impersonate HELOC customers and conduct withdrawals from their accounts.

To insulate himself from detection, Adekoya utilised a web of “burner” phones and encrypted messaging applications and laundered his substantial share of the proceeds through bank accounts in other people’s names.

He also reinvested some of the proceeds into continuing the fraud scheme by purchasing air and bus travel for co-conspirators, fake drivers’ licences, and rental cars used to drive workers to credit unions.

Craig L. Tremaroli, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent in charge of the Albany field office, said Adekoya spent almost two decades of his life “creating a massive criminal network that stole from hard-working Americans”.

“This sentence ensures he’ll spend the next two decades of his life in federal prison,” Tremaroli said.
During the sentencing, Mae A. D’Agostino, US district judge, said Adekoya is “a perpetual thief” and a “flagrant serial offender” who has “orchestrated increasingly sophisticated felony identity-theft and fraud offences since he started his criminal career in 2008 at the age of 22”.

The judge also convicted more than 10 of Adekoya’s co-conspirators, who received varying

WHAT NEXT?


Alongside the 20-year sentence, Adekoya is to serve five years of supervised release, pay more than $2.2 million in restitution, and $1,100 special assessment.

He is also subject to deportation from the US upon completion of his prison term.

Konquest:
Honor killings are very rampant in the Arab/Muslim world right up to the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.

Emma1Oj:
Temporary joy. Default settings loading next game.