Nigeria’s Akinyemi faces 60 years jail in US over $474,000 mail fraud
Nigeria’s Oluwaseyi Akinyemi, 34,
aka “Paddy Linkin” is facing 60 years imprisonment if convicted of $474,000 mail
fraud in the United States.
A criminal complaint was filed
against Akinyemi in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Friday charging Akinyemi
of Hyattsville, Maryland, for the federal charges of mail fraud, attempted mail
fraud, and mail and wire fraud conspiracy, in connections with an advanced fee
fraud scheme using social media to target elderly victims and causing losses of
$474,145.07.
According to the
United States Department of Justice, the criminal complaint was announced by Acting United
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Greenbelt, MD (STL.News) U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced
Jose Luiz Suarez, age 30, a Honduran citizen residing in Germantown, Maryland, to 21 months in prison for illegal reentry after being removed from the United States as a result of a previous felony conviction.
The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner Field Office Director Francisco Madrigal of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore; and Chief Marcus Jones of the Montgomery County Police Department.
According to his guilty plea, Suarez unlawfully entered the United States on July 5, 1999. On September 27, 2012, Suarez was sentenced to five years of imprisonment with all but three years suspended after being convicted of accessory after the fact. On March 14, 2014, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a removal order. Suarez was removed to Honduras from the United States on April 4, 2014. On June 2
April 9, 2021
A federal jury has convicted Tyrek Montez Arrington, 23, of Temple Hills, Maryland, on federal charges for robbing a pharmacy, discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The trial began on Monday, April 5, 2021 and the jury returned its verdict on April 7, 2021, after deliberating for a total of two hours.
The conviction was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner; Special Agent in Charge Jennifer C. Boone of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; and Interim Chief Hector Velez of the Prince George’s County Police Department.
April 8, 2021
Continued to File Fraudulent Tax Returns After Her IRS E-Filing Privileges were Revoked
Lenore Gail Worthy, 53, of Accokeek, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to assisting in the preparation and filing of false tax returns.
The guilty plea was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner; Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division; and Acting Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon of the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, Washington, D.C. Field Office.
According to Worthy’s plea agreement, Worthy obtained electronic tax return filing privileges from the Internal Revenue System (IRS). Worthy subsequently agreed to allow co-conspirator 1, who was not eligible to for admission into the IRS’s e-filing program due to a conviction for wire fraud, to use Worthy’s unique electronic filing identifiers, in e