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This is suspicious because of the blood stains. It smells of a cover-up. The police should investigate. May his soul rest in peace in Jesus Name, Amen.

Good question.

Afamed:
Is your Christianity faith built in Donald Trump?

Rent is coming down in the Bay Area.

Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world. Mackynaija, do you live in the Bay Area?

As soon as I saw their names, I wondered if they were Nigerians. Then I looked up their names and that confirmed my suspicion. Meanwhile read of another incident in Zambia by a Nigerian. http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/accounts-hackers-cornered/?fbclid=IwAR3jSHPqbWcalDv5wde2YMSY23z_yX9Lc_yvqFBg9TxT0HiucSyqdhQEIYc

CHICAGO — Akeem Kosoko and his postal carrier brother had allegedly been stealing people’s personal funds from the U.S. mail for months when the federal government rolled out what undoubtedly seemed like the ultimate bonanza: “Trump checks.”

That’s how Kosoko referred to the federal “economic impact payments” — emblazoned with President Donald Trump’s name — that were mailed to financially struggling taxpayers during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to criminal charges recently unsealed in Chicago’s federal court.

In early May, the FBI was listening as Kosoko allegedly arranged a meeting on Chicago’s West Side to sell several stimulus checks to an associate for $5,000.

“You get them Trump licks?” the associate, who was cooperating with the investigation, asked Kosoko in the May 7 call, according to the charges.

“You know it, boy!” Kosoko replied.

The exchange was one of several detailed in a 43-page criminal complaint charging Kosoko, 26, and his brother, Ahmed Kosoko, 35, with conspiring to steal U.S. mail and theft of government funds.

According to the charges, Ahmed Kosoko, who had been a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier since 2018, and other uncharged postal employees agreed to steal tax refunds, stimulus checks and other financial instruments from the mail in exchange for cash “and other items of value.”

Akeem Kosoko also possessed a mail carrier uniform and a special postal service “arrow key” to rifle through mailboxes on his own, which he referred to as “going fishing,” the charges alleged.

To disguise the fraud, the brothers recruited third parties from across the country to use their bank accounts to deposit the funds, and also used stolen personal identification numbers and other banking information of unwitting victims to withdraw the money from ATMs, the charges alleged.

Prosecutors said told a federal judge in Chicago on Thursday that investigators were still trying to unravel the scope of the fraud, which involved financial transactions in Illinois, New York and Georgia.

“The scheme is so expansive, there are dozens, if not more, co-conspirators,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Nicholson said, adding that the total amount stolen appeared to be “upward of a million dollars.”

Records show FBI agents arrested Ahmed Kosoko in September while he was delivering mail on his usual route in north suburban Skokie. Akeem Kosoko, who was on the phone with his brother at the time of the arrest, told agents that he would turn himself in later that day but he never showed up.

Authorities spent more than a month looking for him before he arranged through his attorney to turn himself in to the U.S. Marshals Service last week, records show.

During a lengthy hearing Thursday, Akeem Kosoko’s attorney, Lisa Lopez, called her client a “man of modest means” who lives with his father in a small apartment in the 1100 block of North Milwaukee Avenue and works at his family’s clothing store.

Nicholson, however, said Kosoko appears to have no permanent residence and there was no evidence that Kosoko has ever had legitimate income.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered Kosoko held without bond, citing arrest warrants issued for him in two separate cases in Georgia as well as pending weapons charges against him in Cook County.

Cummings also said it was particularly “troubling” that Kosoko was charged with stealing checks meant to help financially strapped citizens during a global pandemic.

“That’s quite serious if that’s actually proven,” the judge said.

Ahmed Kosoko, 35, of Chicago, was released on his own recognizance by a different magistrate judge after his arrest in September, records show. His attorney, William Stanton, declined to comment Friday on the allegations.

According to the criminal complaint, the FBI was first alerted to the scheme in October 2019 when a confidential informant told agents that Akeem Kosoko had offered to sell him stolen checks and was recruiting others on Facebook and Instagram by touting “fast cash.”

Three months later, as the federal investigation progressed, Chicago police confiscated Akeem Kosoko’s cellphone after he was arrested during a traffic stop in the 1500 block of South Ridgeway Avenue, records show.

According to the arrest report, Kosoko, who was a passenger in a Jeep Grand Cherokee that ran a stop sign, had an unregistered, loaded handgun in his waistband. He told officers that the gun belonged to his brother and that he was carrying it for protection, according to the report.

Akeem Kosoko was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and was released on $5,000 bond, records show. Those charges are pending in Cook County Criminal Court.

In May, federal prosecutors secured a search warrant for Kosoko’s phone, which was still in the possession of the Chicago Police Department, according to testimony Thursday by FBI Special Agent Lindsay Burt.

On the device, investigators found a trove of text messages and social media chats discussing the mail theft scheme, including photos of stolen items and conversations between the Kosoko brothers about the amounts of certain checks, Burt said.

One photo found on the phone showed Ahmed Kosovo in April 2019 prying open an envelope he’d stolen while on his route, exposing a tax refund check addressed to a Skokie woman for $363, according to the charges.

“Weak (as expletive),” Ahmed texted to his brother in an apparent reference to the small amount of the check, according to the complaint. “Not really even worth taking.”

Shortly after searching Akeem Kosoko’s phone, the FBI instructed the confidential informant to arrange to purchase stolen pandemic stimulus checks from Kosoko, the complaint alleged.

The first meeting took place May 8 in the 2100 block of West Randolph Street. Agents watched as the informant, who was wearing a hidden camera and microphone, handed over $5,000 in exchange for a check intended for a man on the city’s Far South Side, the complaint alleged.

A few days later, the informant called Kosoko to ask when he’d be getting more Trump checks, the charges alleged. “Not today … tomorrow,” Kosoko allegedly replied.

On May 14, the two met again on the same block, where the informant paid Kosoko $6,000 for two more stimulus checks, which had been altered to change the names of the payees, the complaint alleged.

During that meeting, Kosoko allegedly explained to the informant how his network of postal carriers was able to steal the checks without being detected by supervisors.

“When they get someone else’s route bro, like they go do 10 blocks and that route don’t belong to them, they just pocket that (expletive). They can’t get in trouble,” Kosoko was quoted in the complaint as saying.

During the same conversation, the informant asked why Kosoko’s brother hadn’t been able to steal more.

“He ain’t been workin’ like that,” Kosoko allegedly replied. “He caught the coronavirus.”

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-mail-theft-federal-charges-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-20201106-7t4zrrw66fanja2lfj3hhdbpxa-story.html

(The Chicago Tribune’s Megan Crepeau contributed to this report.)

Please read this website that has discredited the merits of living in Libya.

http://www.allsiam.net/libya/

Lagosboy:
Ghadaffi was a dictatator no doubt, but no one could question the services he rendered to his people in terms of amenities and prosperity. He is a million times different to Egypt or Tunisia and light years better than our so called elected presidents in Nigeria.

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
3. Home considered a human right in Libya –4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
Is this what you call a dictator
Traditional wedding in Tripoli, Libya
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.
8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.


11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
Which other dictator has done much good to his people besides

False accusation.

oyetunder:
When a political thief delivered a road side thief...Irony of life.

Africa should stop depending on the West (or any other place) for survival. We can live comfortably with our resources without any outside help. It's frustrating that in this day and age, we are still hoping for the West to come up with plans on how to help Africa. How long will this 'charity' persist before we get our act together? A baby cant keep crawling forever.

Electoral college is the antithesis of democracy that America espouses. It should be abolished.

Na this kin people dey rubbish our image.

Ben Ayade is smart academically, from studying Microbiology to earning a Doctoral Degree in the field and a dissertation which was adjudged the best, to studying law, being called to the bar, then going back to school again for post graduate degree in Law. Really smart academically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Ayade

Welcoming the same Oba of Lagos who had been hoarding palliative meant for the public in the midst of this global economic crisis. This is typical of Nigeria where polithiefcians are honored and revered with extravagant ceremonies while pickpockets are burnt to death.

When I was in the NYSC camp, we had pregnant and nursing women. This was in Wudil, Kano State. I remember girls queuing up for extra food and when confronted, would explain that their roommate is having morning sickness. I guess the rules have changed now.

Crazeworld:
Pregnant and nursing mothers are not allowed in camp. She will be registered and asked to go back home.

Child Abuse.

https://carm.org/jesus-resurrection-was-physical


quote author=Janosky post=95332498]

Bros , according to your link , was Jesus resurrected body "different from before his crucifixion "?

Do you now agree that the title of your link is "Jesus use the same body" is FALSE ?

According to your link, the Roman soldiers "literally drained the blood from Jesus body, is that claim in your own Bible?

Why would Jesus be able to appear and disappear if he's not floating like spirits ?[/quote]

No human is free from temptation. The key is not to fall into it. A powerful weapon against porn is praying with a sincere heart and pleading for Grace to help you overcome it.

meobizy:
As a Christian, how did you get the urge in the first place?

Heartlessness.

There are two sides to a story. But I do have to ask though, didnt the man have sons to resolve this conflict?

First, palliatives were discovered being hoarded in Lagos allegedly by its Oba, now another has been discovered hoarded by the government in Calabar, where else will they be discovered tomorrow?

Yeah, he was also my senior prefect at Lutheran High School, Obot Idim. He was in Luther House. We used to call him ABE.

youngus:
wow.....behold my senior prefect that year@LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL,OBOT IDIM IBESIKPO.AKWA IBOM STATE.
congratulation sir.....

What of the rest who did not receive the loot?

Igbochief001:
How's that loot ... something that belongs to her ?

Are you defending the same Oba who allegedly stockpiled palliatives meant for the public in his palace?

Numismatic:
This is wrong in every level.. Disrespect for traditional institutions and elders is never the way forward..

An achievement indeed. If they arent achievements, what are they then?

BlackfireX:
Is these an achievement ?

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The activist reminds me of the Sudanese female activist, Alaa Salah, whose iconic picture draped in a white outfit and dangling earrings as she stood on top of a vehicle during the protest movement in Sudan.

https://time.com/5712952/alaa-salah-sudan-women-protest/


Meanwhile, how true are this allegation against Aisha Yesufu's husband?

https://www.nairaland.com/6138070/revealed-aisha-yesufus-husband-stole