Complaint — No. 3:21-mj-05117 (Dkt. 1, W.D. Wash.)

Summary

A criminal complaint filed June 7, 2021 as Document 1 in United States v. Chukwuemeka Onyegbula, a/k/a Phillip Carter, Case No. MJ21-5117 (3:21-mj-05117-JRC), in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma, before Chief United States Magistrate Judge J. Richard Creatura. Counts 1-5 charge wire fraud under Title 18 U.S.C. § 1343, alleging that from no later than April 20, 2020 through at least February 21, 2021 Onyegbula used stolen personal identifying information to submit at least 253 unemployment claims to the Washington Employment Security Department and other state workforce agencies, and EIDL applications to the SBA. The complaint alleges variants of a single Gmail address were used to open many claim accounts, and each count is an account activation email sent in May 2020. The supporting affidavit is by FBI Special Agent Heidi Hawkins.

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