{"id":59588,"date":"2025-08-26T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=59588"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:00:50","slug":"federal-jury-convicts-fifth-defendant-in-fraud-laundering-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=59588","title":{"rendered":"Federal Jury Convicts Fifth Defendant in  Fraud and Laundering Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"310\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"310\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15087 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/U.S.-Postal-Inspection-Service.png 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> A federal jury has convicted Oluwasegun Baiyewu, 37, of Richmond, Texas, for conspiring to launder money tied to international fraud operations, officials announced Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"701\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Following a 22-day trial, prosecutors showed that Baiyewu and four others \u2014 Oluwaseun Adelekan, 40, and Temitope Omotayo, 40, both of Staten Island, N.Y.; Ifeoluwa Dudubo, 37, of Austin, Texas; and Temitope Suleiman, 37, also of Richmond, Texas \u2014 funneled proceeds from a range of scams, including romance fraud, pandemic unemployment relief fraud, and business email compromise schemes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"778\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The schemes disproportionately targeted elderly and vulnerable Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"361\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">A superseding indictment charged five defendants with conspiring in 2020 and 2021 to launder proceeds from scams targeting older adults in California, Illinois, Washington, and Nevada, as well as business email compromise schemes in Puerto Rico and Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"531\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Prosecutors said the defendants and co-conspirators moved the illicit funds through hundreds of transactions, including purchasing used cars later shipped to Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"765\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Sentencing will take place before U.S. District Judge Ra\u00fal M. 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