SEASONS GREETING FROM HON TAIYE AYEDUN SHANANA
May the reasons to celebrate happiness be as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
HON.TAIYE AYEDUN [SHANANA]
SSA TO GOVERNOR AMBODE ON CIVIC MATTERS
NIGERIAN MAN ARRESTED FOR FRAUD IN AMERICA
A Nigerian, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, accused of obtaining more than 125,000 stolen taxpayer identities from across the United States has been convicted in federal court in Oregon.He was found guilty on 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.A jury in Medford returned the verdicts Friday against Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, 34, who lived most recently in Bowie, Maryland. Prosecutors say Kazeem bought over 91,000 of the identities from a Vietnamese hacker who got into a database belonging to an Oregon company called CICS Employment Services. Most of the personal information belonged to people living in Oregon and Washington and were used to file fraudulent tax returns between 2012 and 2015.Over 2,800 fraudulent returns were linked to Kazeem with attempted refunds in excess of $26 million and actual losses to the federal government of nearly $7 million. IRS criminal investigators traced more than 2...
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