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Third Person Admits To Role In Email Scheme Targeting CFOs, Controllers
A third man has admitted to his role in a scheme to defraud business leaders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through an email scam.
Stanley Hugochukwu Nwoke - also known as “Stanley Banks,” “Banks,” “Hugo Banks,” “Banky,” and “Jose Calderon” - a citizen of Nigeria, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in district court in New Haven this week, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced.
Nwoke, 28, admitted to conspiring with Adeyemi Odufuye and others in a business compromise scheme that targeted hundreds of CFOs, controllers, and others at businesses, nonprofit or…
Three Admit To Involvement In Large-Scale Marijuana Trafficking Operation
Three men have admitted to their roles in an elaborate, bi-coastal, multi-million dollar marijuana trafficking operation that flooded Connecticut with nearly two tons of the drug.
Scott “Pep” Bodnar, of Ansonia, Terrell Givens, of Beacon Falls, and Donald Burns, of Milford, have pleaded guilty to federal offenses in connection to a large-scale marijuana trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney John Durham announced this week.
In 2016, the Federal Aviation Administration launched an investigation into a single-engine aircraft, owned by Burns, that made regular flights from Stratford to northern…