12-Month Sentence in Federal Romance-Fraud and Money-Laundering Case
Represented a prominent Ghanaian social-media figure extradited from the United Kingdom on a six-count federal indictment alleging involvement in a multimillion-dollar romance-fraud and money-laundering scheme. The case was resolved with a plea to a single count of conspiracy to receive stolen money, and the client was sentenced to 12 months and one day, approximately two years below guidelines.