| Man Charged With Wire Fraud
Who Got Job At Big Apple Circus Gets 20 Months
In Prison
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 12 – A man charged with
bank fraud but out on bail and
with a job at the Big Apple
Circus faced remand to prison
on January 13 for not
returning when he was supposed
to to his mother's house.
Kizzito
Chukwujekwu used the name
Jerry Martins to own bank
accounts to which companies
were fraudulently induced to
send funds, according to the
initially seal complaint from
September 2019.
U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Katherine H.
Parker told Chukwujekwu that
it was good he'd found the job
in the circus that when he was
locked out of his mother's
home, to which it he is
supposed to return each night,
he should contact Pre Trial
Services.
Speaking for himself,
Chukwujekwu replied that his
Pre Trial Services officer has
been away on holiday and he
had not wanted to e-mail the
general Pre Trial Services
e-mail box. You have to
communicate better, Judge
Parker said, adding that it
would help with his sentencing
if he is, in fact, found
guilty.
At the bond hearing
Chukwujekwu was linked to
e-mail financial scams from
Nigeria; the Bank of Ghana was
cited as an example.
On March
6, Inner City Press alone in
the SDNY Magistrates Court
witnessed Chukwujekwu pleading
guilty to a single count, wire
fraund and not conspiracy. The
case was assigned to District
Judge Alison Nathan, for
sentencing.
On August
12, Judge Nathan held the
sentencing, and Inner City
Press covered it.
Chukwujekwu's lawyer
emphasized that his client had
returned from Georgia for SDNY
proceedings.
Judge
Nathan said there were real
victims, defrauded businesses.
She sentenced Chukwujekwu to
twenty months in prison then
three years of supervised
release, as well as paying
$431,000.
The
case was US v. Chukwujekwu,
19-mj-8273 (Parker); it is now
US v.
Chukwujekwu, 20-cr-189
(Nathan).
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