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Federal officials charge two Nigerian natives living in New York City used fake IDs to suck out money from the Massachusetts unemployment system and a federal disaster loan program – some of which they then tried to launder through transactions with an elderly man they met through Facebook, who had bought their story they were actually a young fitness instructor from Texas.
A federal complaint unsealed this week only names one of the two men, Damilola Adepoju, because the other man remains at large; federal complaints typically only name people after they have been detained. Adepoju was formally charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
According to an affidavit by an FBI agent on the case, the two men hatched a plan last year to obtain Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments and an SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan by using fraudulently obtained IDs to apply for payments. They took…
