A woman from Florida is accused of defrauding a holocaust survivor she met on a dating app out of $2.8 million, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York states. Peaches Stergo was sentenced to 51 months in prison was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos for her…
A 38-year-old Canton woman who stole $1 million from her victims using romance scams and pandemic unemployment fraud will spend more than three years behind bars. Florence Mwende Musau pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and was sentenced to 44 months in prison and ordered to…
According to court documents, the Orjis and their co-defendants preyed on elderly victims, many of whom were widowed or divorced. DALLAS — A romance scammer with ties to a Nigerian organized crime syndicate was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal prison, according to U.S. Attorney for the…
OAKLAND — A 66-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for coaxing child pornography from a 7-year-old girl after reaching out to her on a messaging app, telling her “I love you,” and asking to be her boyfriend. Darryl Badzinski was transferred Dec. 2 to…
A man who pleaded guilty to scamming women through dating apps has been sentenced to more than three years in prison, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas announced Monday. Frederick Orji, 38, was among 11 people who were arrested and indicted last year following a federal…
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Federal officials say the man behind a nationwide senior romance scam has been sentenced. Edwin Agbi, the architect behind a scheme to steal money from elderly people, has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison, according to the Department of Justice. The sentence was imposed…
