Indictment — USA v. Edokpaigbe (Dkt. 1, D. Colo.)

Summary

A grand jury indictment against Nosa Stephen Edokpaigbe, Case No. 1:23-cr-00442-RMR, filed October 17, 2023 as Document 1 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Count 1 charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, from no later than July 2020 through at least March 2023. The indictment alleges that the defendant and other members of a "Fraud Ring" used real people's identifying information to submit more than 650 fraudulent EIDL applications, obtaining more than $900,000, and more than 100 fraudulent PPP applications, obtaining more than $400,000, and also submitted fraudulent tax returns to the IRS. It describes dot variants of the same Gmail addresses used to file hundreds of EIDL applications; Counts 2 through 8 charge wire fraud and Counts 9 and 10 aggravated identity theft.

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