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Two Nigerians plead guilty to stealing over $500,000 with personal information of U.S. postal service customers

Akinwande Soji-Ojo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo
August 26, 2021
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Two Nigerians plead guilty to stealing over $500,000 with personal information of U.S. postal service customers
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Two Nigerians have pleaded guilty to defrauding postal service customers of $565,000 in Maryland, United States.

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A statement on Wednesday by the Federal Court in Maryland, said Johnson Ogunlana, 25, of Maryland; and Samson Oguntuyi, 29, of Georgia, “pleaded guilty on the eve of trial to federal charges related to schemes to defraud financial institutions, retail establishments and other business victims, often using the stolen personal information of individual victims.”

According to the statement, the guilty pleas were announced by acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Jonathan Lenzner; Special Agent in Charge of the US Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, Imari Niles; and Postal Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division,Daniel A. Adame.

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In their plea agreements, Ogunlana was a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service in Brooklyn, Maryland.

“Ogunlana and Oguntuyi acknowledged that between July 25, 2016 and February 5, 2019, they conspired together and with others to steal bank checks and credit and debit cards from the mail, open fraudulent business banking accounts using the names of victim businesses and the stolen identities of victim postal customers to negotiate the stolen checks by depositing them into the fraudulent bank accounts, and then conduct transactions with stolen payment cards and with money derived from the stolen checks.

“Ogunlana and others used stolen payment cards issued to identity theft victims to pay fees to register some of the fraudulent businesses. Ogunlana also stole checks payable to victim businesses, whose mail was serviced out of the USPS facility where Ogunlana worked, by intercepting their mail.

“Oguntuyi and Ogunlana then endorsed some of the checks by forging the signatures of identity theft victims and deposited the checks into the fraudulent business bank accounts the conspirators opened in the names of the victim businesses.

“The conspirators then withdrew the money from the accounts through cash withdrawals, debit card purchases and cashback transactions at retail merchants, wire transfers, and by writing checks drawn on the accounts.

“As detailed in their plea agreements, at least $565,000 was stolen from two victim businesses and at least eight postal customers were victims of identity theft,” the statement read in part.

Both suspects each face a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and mail fraud. Oguntuyi also faces a maximum of 30 years for bank fraud.

Ogunlana faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for access device fraud and a maximum of five years in federal prison for theft of mail by a postal employee. Both defendants face a mandatory sentence of two years, consecutive to any other sentence imposed, for aggravated identity theft.

A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

U.S. District Judge, Catherine Blake has not yet scheduled sentencing for the defendants.

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