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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.

Dhury:
Your disgrace to humanity.

Your argument collapses under the weight of its own prejudice. To portray millions of individuals as inherently “dark” because of the violent actions of a minority is intellectually shallow and morally bankrupt. Every religion, culture, and society has its share of criminal acts and harmful traditions; these failures do not define the entire faith nor the collective identity of its adherents.

Attempting to use isolated atrocities as justification for large-scale violence or as a basis to dehumanize an entire population is not only reckless but profoundly dangerous. Innocent people — Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Arab, and others — continue to suffer the consequences of conflicts they neither initiated nor endorsed.

If you genuinely cared about justice or human dignity, you would condemn wrongdoing universally, rather than selectively weaponizing it to reinforce your own biases. What you have offered here is not insight but prejudice masquerading as analysis.

Arrowhead71:
You will not see Hamas supporters who made themselves the enemies of Israel on this thread
Imagine killing theirs own blood for flimsy execuse...who else would they not kill for evil religion ....

sinola:
i dont know why all jihadists will always leave their shithole countries only to go and settle in western countries to be committing atrocities upadan.

what were they thinking in the first place.

KILLER’ FAMILY Gagged & tied teen thrown into swamp & left to drown ‘by her BROTHERS in Muslim honour killing over Western behaviour’

The 18-year-old had been under protection prior to the murder

A TEEN girl was left tied, gagged, dumped and drowned in a horrific Muslim honour killing over her “Western behaviour”, according to Dutch prosecutors.

Ryan Al Najjar, 18, was allegedly murdered by her brothers under orders from the father after she had “shamed” the family by having a boyfriend

.The cowardly father Khaled has fled to native Syria while Mohamed, 23, and Muhanad Al Najjar, 25, are on trial for the murder. Khaled will be tried in absentia.

Al Najjar vanished from the family home in Joure, Netherlands six days before being discovered gagged with her hands bound behind her back, ankles taped together and submerged in a swamp.

She went missing on 22 May 2024, before being found on 28 May in Lelystad, about 25 miles north-east of Amsterdam.

DNA belonging to her dad was found under her fingernails, which suggests she had put up a fight.

Prosecutors claim the teen was murdered for simply having a boyfriend and behaving in a way the Syrian family thought “Western”.

They formally designated the murder as an honour crime.

Her brothers, who trial started yesterday, insist the killing was carried out by their father alone.

The fugitive father allegedly sent two emails to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf claiming sole responsibility and saying his sons were innocent.


But prosecutors rubbished his claim, insisting that he told his boys to snatch Ryan, drive her to a remote spot and leave her for dead in the water gagged and weighed down.

They also say the brothers carried out the grim plan knowing she would die.

Ryan had previously been under police protection, but that ended before her murder.

They have not disclosed why the protection ceased.

Both brothers were arrested within hours of Ryan’s body being found and have been locked up ever since. Khaled remains on the run.

Dutch current-affairs show Nieuwsuur claims Khaled is now holed up in northern Syria, where he has remarried.

The Dutch Ministry of Justice says it has no way of dragging him back, explaining: “The possibilities for criminal cooperation with Syria are currently not available.

Predictor3:
we may not like him but for now he is the only one with enough heft to defeat Tinubu. If he partners with obi as VP, Tinubu should just say otilo

allanphash7:
Crap


Is that his business



Those who want to bring BB down shall be put to shame

ebukal67x:
This year, we are not doing the usual. Outside of Nigeria, we will protest at every Nigerian embassy and high commission.

otipoju:
Hazard was finished even before he left Chelsea.
Injuries had crippled him before we sold him.

Oshimen will score well in LA Liga because he would be getting quality passes from better midfielders.

He knows how to score

blackgold2018:
where is hazard now sef? Has he retired