According to Sahara Reporters, a United States grand jury has charged Nigerian-born lawyer and Deeper Life Bible Church pastor, Ifeanyichukwu Eric Abakporo and his American co-conspirator, Latanya Pierce, with a variety of wire and bank fraud offences.
The Grand Jury's superseding indictment is requesting theaccused Abakporo and Pierce to forfeit to the government a wide variety of properties related to the charged offences, as well as a sum of money representing the approximate amount of proceeds obtained as a result of the offences.
The superseding indictment, cited as Case 1:12-cr-00340-SAS filed on January 24 2013, charges that from about 2003 until about 2012, Abakporo and Pierce, who owned or controlled several real estate-related businesses, worked together with other co-conspirators, known and unknown, in a scheme to defraud financial institutions and mortgage lenders, property owners, property buyers and others of real property, mortgage loan proceeds, and monies related to real property transactions.
The indictment alleges that, as part of their fraudulent scheme, Abakporo and Pierce used straw purchasers and borrowers to buy properties using mortgage loans from financial institutions and mortgage lenders, and caused false and fraudulent documents and information to be submitted to those financial institutions and mortgage lenders.
Although Abakporo's lawyers haver sought to dismiss the new superseding indictment, in an effort to thwart his trial, that attempt was recently denied by the judge overseeing the criminal case, The judge has ordered Abakporo and Pierce to stand trial, with the trial scheduled to start on July 8, 2013.
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