Indictment — No. 3:21-cr-05214 (Dkt. 4, W.D. Wash.)

Summary

An indictment in United States v. Chukwuemeka Onyegbula, a/k/a Phillip Carter, No. CR21-5214 BHS, filed June 23, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma. Count 1 charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud from no later than April 20, 2020 through at least February 21, 2021, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349, and Counts 2-10 charge wire fraud. The indictment alleges that the defendant and co-conspirators 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. It states that they used dot variants of one Gmail address to hide repeat filings, and caused payouts of at least approximately $300,000 in unemployment benefits and EIDL proceeds of at least approximately $50,000.

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