The United States government has submitted a 97,000-page material in court as part of evidence of alleged fraud against Abidemi Rufai, a suspended aide of
It added that much of the material “contains personal identifying information or sensitive financial information.”
He is accused of using the identities of more than 100 Washington residents to steal more than $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department during the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The charges filed at U.S. District Court for the Western Washington at Tacoma, comprise conspiracy to commit wire fraud, nine counts of wire fraud, and five counts of aggravated identity theft.
“The defence requires additional time to review and analyse the government’s discovery production, to consult with its client, and to conduct its own factual and legal investigation before it can prepare pretrial motions or prepare for trial,” the document reads, partly. It added that Mr Rufai, was “presently in transit from New York” to Tahoma, Washington, where the trial is to be conducted and might not arrive until August 13.A federal magistrate in New York granted him a $300,000 bail bond but he could not get a surety.
But the U.S. government later exposed her as a “suspect in an investigation into an email impersonation scheme.” Her husband, Idris Soyemi, is also said to have been convicted for wire fraud in 2014.
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