Sarpong didn’t file tax returns or pay income taxes, the U.S.
Sarpong’s collaborators, including a New Jersey-based American citizen, have been charged, a Justice Department spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday.ĭespite having made $1.14 million in taxable income using the scheme from 2016 to 2018, Mr.
About $454,000 was sent to his co-conspirators in Ghana, the F.B.I. Victims mailed personal checks or cashier’s checks or used money-transfer services to send money to various bank accounts mostly controlled by Mr. Many victims were told that the money would cover the cost of shipping gold bars that they had recovered or been awarded in Syria to the United States, and that they would be repaid once the gold bars were received. Sarpong and his team asked for money, according to an F.B.I. District Court in New Jersey.Īfter contacting victims, “wooing them with words of love” and initiating long-distance romantic relationships, Mr. military service members stationed in Syria, federal prosecutors said in a complaint filed in U.S. Sarpong and his co-conspirators, most of whom live in Ghana, set up profiles on dating websites, including Plenty of Fish, and, often claiming to be U.S. Sarpong on Tuesday to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay more than $3 million in restitution to 36 victims.įrom January 2016 to September 2019, Mr. In addition to the prison term, a federal judge also sentenced Mr. Rubbin Sarpong, 38, of Millville, pleaded guilty in November to charges of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. military personnel serving overseas, stole $1.75 million from more than 40 victims over four years, federal prosecutors said.
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in an online dating scheme in which he and others, posing as U.S.
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