According to court documents, the Orjis and their co-defendants preyed on elderly victims, many of whom were widowed or divorced.
DALLAS — A romance scammer with ties to a Nigerian organized crime syndicate was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal prison, according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
Emanuel Stanley Orji, a 36-year-old from Nigeria, was charged alongside 10 co-conspirators in a large-scale operation led by the FBI in September 2021.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office and Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office were two of the agencies that led this investigation.
Orji pleaded guilty in September 2022 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was sentenced Monday to 37 months in federal prison by Chief U.S. District Judge David Godbey, who also ordered him to pay $418,030 in restitution to his victims.
Orji’s brother, 38-year-old Frederick Orji, pleaded guilty to the same crimes and received the same sentence in December 2022.
According to court documents, the Orjis and their co-defendants preyed on elderly victims, many of whom were widowed or divorced. They assumed fake names and trolled dating sites like Match.com…
