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Mayfield pleaded guilty to the charge at the United States district court for the northern district of Georgia, in Atlanta, on June 29,Following her guilty plea, Eleanor Ross, trial judge, has fixed October 28 for her sentencing.
Manubir Arora, her lawyer, in a document filed on October 13, wrote: “There is no doubt Ms. Mayfield knew right from wrong. She behaved irrationally in trying to help the co-defendants by signing false forms for their benefit.”“Over the period of the conspiracy, Mayfield was paid approximately $20,000 in total by the co-defendants to sign and file the paperwork at issue.”
Prosecutors said she was engaged to enter into aviation-related contracts on behalf of Springfield Aviation, despite her lack of education, training, or licensing in the review and valuation of aircraft and aircraft components.In her plea bargain filed in June, she confessed to signing and submitting fake documents enabling a $20 million credit disbursement from Nigeria to US bank accounts.