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Arrest of Nigerians For Bank Fraud One
Worked For NY Now An NJ Guilty Plea
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 30, Exclusive –
Ten arrests for money
laundering and bank fraud were
announced on October 13, 2021
by the US Attorney's Office
for the Southern District of
New York. Inner City Press
went to the SDNY Magistrates
Court to report on the
presentments and live tweeted
here:
... Magistrates
Court at 5:33 pm it's jumping.
At least four defense lawyers,
cops in windbreakers, US
Marshals ready to bring
defendants in from holding
cell.
This case is a
triple. Three defendants,
three lawyers (one a white
shoe firm money laundering
lawyer Inner City Press knows
from another case), around
tables set up in an L shape.
All rise!
This is a
multi-state multi-defendant
bank fraud and money
laundering case, announced
today by new US Attorney
Damian Williams. Inner City
Press is alone in the
courtroom gallery. US is
agreeing to pre-trial release
with GPS (for 2 from
Nigeria)
One defendant
works for New York Department
of Health, is described as
having a student visa. (He's
said to be Lateef Galoba,
whose co-defendant Samsondeen
Goloba has yet to be
presented).
Judge Sarah
Netburn says no GPS, then. The
other also contests GPS, white
shoe lawyer says the domestic
violence charge is bogus but
triggered violations
proceeding.
Lawyer
adds that defendant studies
physical therapy at Essex
College, GPS would set off
alarms.
Judge agrees. He
will be released tonight.
Jump cut to
January 30, 2023, when in an
otherwise empty SDNY
Magistrates Court co-defendant
Olawoyin Peter Olarewaju was
pleading guilty before
Magistrate Judge Jennifer E.
Willis, with a plea agreement
for 21 to 27 months. He
said he had opened up a bank
account with a fake ID in New
Jersey. The AUSA added that
the conspiracy touched
Manhattan, and that the
accounts were used for funds
from fraud schemes. His
sentencing is set for May 3,
2023 at 10 am before Judge
Preska.
Earlier it
was said, "Damian Williams,
the United States Attorney for
the Southern District of New
York, and Patrick J. Freaney,
the Special Agent-in-Charge of
the New York Field Office of
the United States Secret
Service , announced today the
unsealing of an Indictment
charging 11 defendants with
conspiracy to commit money
laundering, conspiracy to
commit bank fraud, and
aggravated identity theft, in
connection with their
involvement in laundering
millions of dollars in
proceeds derived from business
email compromises and romance
fraud schemes.
Nine
defendants were arrested today
in the District of New Jersey
and the Eastern District of
New York, and will be
presented this afternoon
before United States
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn
in the Southern District of
New York."
The case is US v.
John, et al., 21-cr-609
(Preska / Willis).
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