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Pleading guilty in federal court in Trenton to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Bobby Boye of Mahwah admitted using the money to buy $1.5 million worth of property (paying cash), three luxury vehicles (a 2012 Bentley for $172,000, a 2012 Range Rover for $100,983, and a 2011 Rolls Royce for $215,000), and two designer watches for nearly $20,000.
Between June 2012 and December 2012, Country A wired more than $3.5 million to Opus & Best’s New York business checking account, which was controlled by Boye, 51 — also known as “Bobby Ajiboye,”or “Bobby Aji-Boye.”
Boye, who was arrested by federal agents at Newark Airport last June as he returned form a trip abroad, who worked as an international legal advisor for the unidentified country.
Serving on a three-member committee responsible for reviewing and evaluating bids, he steered a multi- million dollar contract to provide legal and tax accounting advice to a bogus company that he secretly controlled, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said last year.
Boye wrote up bid documents with a conspirator for the sham law and accounting firm — named Opus & Best Services LLC — in March 2012 that “contained multiple, material misrepresentations and omissions,” Fishman said.
These included a bogus list of purported employees who were touted as “first class talent of attorneys, accountants and economists.”
“There was no record of individuals of those same names as being admitted to practice law in New York or New Jersey or as being New York-licensed certified public accountants,” Fishman said.
Under the terms of the contract, awarded in June 2012, Boye was one of two project coordinators acting on behalf of the victim country, a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark says. As such, he “had authority to receive and approve invoices for payment,” it says.
Over the next five months, the nation wired more than $3.5 million to Opus & Best’s New York business checking account, which was controlled by Boye, the complaint says.
He used the money to purchase four properties in New Jersey for more than $1.5 million in cash, three luxury vehicles (a 2012 Bentley for $172,000, a 2012 Range Rover for $100,983, and a 2011 Rolls Royce for $215,000) and two designer watches for almost $20,000, it says.
Fishman credited special agents of the FBI’s Garret Mountain Resident Office in Woodland Park with making the case, presented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Shirley U. Emehelu of Fishman’s Economic Crimes Unit and Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Ward of his Assset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Unit.
U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson set sentencing for Aug. 13.
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