Woodberry jailed eight years in US, faces deportation to Nigeria empty-handed

Woodberry jailed eight years in US, faces deportation to Nigeria empty-handed

A notorious Nigerian online scammer, Olalekan Ponle, also known as Woodberry on Tuesday lost all his known assets to the United States government after a court in Ilinois jailed him for 100 months.

The sentence translates to eight years and four months of jail time.

Judge Robert Gentleman of the US District Court for Northern Illinois handed down the verdict on Tuesday, about three months after Woodberry pleaded guilty to defrauding at least seven companies of over $8 million in less than one year.

“The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of One hundred (100) months as to count 1,” Mr Gentleman ruled Tuesday.

Based on the plea agreement with US prosecutors in April, the court dismissed the rest of the seven counts in the original eight charges indictment filed against him.

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