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$5 Million Fraud Scheme: Man Who Scammed Long Islander Indicted
The scammer, along with co-conspirators, conned a Long Island man out of approximately $5.3 million, which they spent nearly all of.
On Tuesday, April 25 at the Central Islip federal court, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, along with a New York FBI director, announced the charges against Odera Odabi.
Odabi is charged with conspiring to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, according to the announcement.
The 54-year-old Georgia man is alleged to have falsely informed a Suffolk County resident (known in the case as John Doe) that he needed to p…