Quadri, who lived in Pasadena, California, was sentenced on Thursday by Judge George H. Wu. Along with the prison term, he was ordered to pay $1,356,229 in restitution and a $35,000 fine.
According to court documents, Quadri filed over 100 fr@udulent claims for pandemic unemployment and disability benefits using stolen identities. He used part of the proceeds to build a luxury hotel and shopping mall in Nigeria, known as Oyins International—a 120-room facility with a nightclub and other high-end features. Investigators said he wired at least $500,000 abroad to fund the project.
Quadri, a U.S. green card holder through what he privately admitted was a “f@ke wedding,” pleaded guilty on January 2, 2025, to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fr@ud. His fr@udulent operations ran from 2021 to 2024, ending with his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport in September 2024 while attempting to flee to Nigeria.
Authorities also discovered that he failed to disclose the Nigerian hotel in financial declarations submitted to the court. A search of his home revealed misappropriated food-aid debit cards meant for developmentally disabled children, linked to his Altadena-based daycare business, Rock of Peace.
Digital evidence found on his phone included 17 f@ke checks totaling over $3.3 million and conversations about how to cash them. Some checks were issued to shell companies tied to aliases he used.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations, and the California Employment Development Department’s Investigation Division. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Brown prosecuted the case.
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Greedy and wicked soul. 🙄🙄🙄
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteStealing from those with disability is terrible
Stealing from anyone is terrible.
DeleteImagine, wicked people
DeleteRuthless soul
ReplyDeleteGreedy soul
ReplyDeleteThey steal from the living( both young and old),,,disabled, even the dead.
ReplyDeleteThis is pure wickedness haaa
ReplyDeleteGreedy human.
ReplyDeleteNa wa o 😲
ReplyDeleteWickedness and greed at its peak.
Glad he was caught, greedy man
ReplyDeleteI hope he had something set aside cause 11 years is longggggg.
ReplyDeleteWhatever he had set aside will be eaten by locusts. Usually men like him attract his like and they will help him finish his ill gotten money.
DeleteWith his job, he would have comfortably built perhaps a 30 room lodge gradually over about 7-10 years. Had he focused on his career with a view of expansion, he won't even be looking for the stress of hospitality business rather, working less hours and earning far more in USD.
ReplyDeleteHe had a childhood wound he wanted to address, a negative voice animated by petty rivalries so he wanted to "show them".
With this sentence, house equity has vaporised. Marriage will probably dissolve. 401k don dry. Debt is waiting after release with no good record to do the same job so what's the point?