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Oloyede, 62, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the U.S. residing in Medina, Ohio, was sentenced on August 26, 2025, to 56 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko.
The Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede, who was recently sentenced in the United States to over four years in prison for COVID-19 relief fraud, had previously been convicted of immigration fraud in 1991.
Oloyede, 62, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the U.S. residing in Medina, Ohio, was sentenced on August 26, 2025, to 56 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko.
In a statement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio said the monarch was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completing his jail term and to pay $4,408,543.38 in restitution.
“He also forfeited his Medina home on Foote Road, which he had acquired with proceeds of the scheme, and an additional $96,006.89 in fraud proceeds investigators had seized,” the statement read.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Oloyede led a conspiracy to exploit COVID-19 emergency loan programmes created for struggling businesses.
“From about April 2020 to February 2022, Oloyede and his co-conspirator, Edward Oluwasanmi, conspired to submit fraudulent applications for loans that were made available through the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,” the statement read.
Oluwasanmi was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment on Counts 1, 11, and 12 of the indictment, to run concurrently.
He was also given three years of supervised release on each of those counts, with all terms running concurrently and subject to both standard and special conditions.
The court further imposed a $15,000 fine, a $300 special assessment, restitution in the amount of $1,207,470, and ordered forfeiture. Counts 3–6 and 8 were disposed of under the plea agreement.
Meanwhile, court documents obtained by SaharaReporters revealed that Oloyede and Clifford C. Cooper, an immigration attorney based in Arlington, Virginia, were earlier convicted for orchestrating a scam that used counterfeit documents to obtain work and residence permits for illegal aliens.
In November 1992, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the convictions of Cooper and Oloyede, known by Oluwole Oloyede, at the time.
The appeals court agreed with the lower court and also found the duo guilty of a scheme to defraud the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) by filing fraudulent documents for Nigerians and Ethiopians seeking U.S. citizenship.
The decision, delivered in November 1992 and amended in January 1993, addressed two key issues raised by the appellants: whether federal law on “harboring” illegal aliens applies to immigrants already residing in the country, and whether evidence obtained during a search of Cooper’s law office should have been suppressed on grounds of overbreadth or violation of attorney-client privilege.
Fraudulent Immigration Scheme
Court records revealed that Oloyede, a part-time cab driver at the time, who also ran the “Towers Network” in Washington, D.C., sold false employment, social security, and supporting documents to illegal aliens.
He then referred them to Cooper, who used his position as an attorney to prepare and file their INS applications.
Eight illegal aliens, most of them Nigerians who had overstayed their student or visitor visas, testified against the defendants. They told the court how they paid between $1,600 and $3,500 for fraudulent paperwork, including residency and citizenship applications, which Cooper personally defended before immigration hearings.
The appellate panel noted that the evidence showed “a distinct pattern of appellants luring well-educated, employed aliens to Cooper’s office by offering to sell them a legal status they could not otherwise obtain.”
Cooper and Oloyede were convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(D), which criminalizes encouraging aliens to reside in the United States illegally. The defendants argued that the law applied only to smuggling aliens into the country, not to those already living in the U.S.
But the court disagreed, ruling that the statute also covered activities directed at immigrants already present.
The judgment stated: “Because the use of the verb ‘is’ clearly connotes the present status of the illegal aliens’ residence in this case within the United States, it can only be understood to apply expressly to actions directed towards illegal aliens already in this country.”
The judges further held that by selling false citizenship papers, the defendants “helped those aliens to reside in this country by providing them with an opportunity to gain employment, support themselves, and avoid having to return to their native lands.”
Cooper also challenged the admissibility of evidence seized during a raid on his law office, claiming the search warrant was overly broad and violated attorney-client privilege.
The affidavit supporting the warrant, filed by INS Special Agent Melody Jackson, pointed to over 50 suspicious Nigerian applications, two confidential informants who described the fraudulent scheme, and a review of 26 files that all contained false documents.
The court upheld the warrant, ruling that Cooper’s practice was “permeated with fraud” and therefore justified the seizure of all immigration-related files. It emphasized that the types of documents authorized for seizure were “limited to those having some relation to the suspected criminal activity.”
Attorney-Client Privilege Rejected
On the issue of privilege, Cooper argued that the search intruded into confidential communications with his clients. But the court rejected the claim, holding that the privilege was waived since the false information provided by clients was intended for use in public immigration applications.
Citing precedent, the judgment noted, “Any voluntary disclosure (such as an offering brochure or income tax returns) by the client to a third party waives the privilege not only as to the specific communication disclosed, but often as to all other communications relating to the same subject matter.”
The court concluded that there was no intention by the clients to keep such communications strictly confidential, especially as they were made in furtherance of a fraudulent scheme.
Convictions Affirmed
The three-judge panel, listed as Chief Judge Ervin, Senior Circuit Judge Chapman, and District Judge Michael, unanimously upheld the convictions.
The ruling emphasized that the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) was explicitly designed to deter illegal immigrants from remaining in the United States by imposing sanctions on employers and barring public benefits, making the defendants’ scheme the “exact type of encouragement the statute was aimed at preventing.”
The court’s final decision concluded that: “For the reasons stated, the appellants’ convictions are AFFIRMED.”
Osun Governor Orders Commissioner To Act On Ipetumodu Stool
On Saturday, SaharaReporters reported that the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, had broken his silence on the throne crisis rocking the Ipetumodu community following Oloyede’s
Since his conviction, Ipetumodu has been thrown into turmoil, with factions emerging, some insisting the stool should remain vacant until the monarch returns, while others are demanding that a new traditional ruler be installed immediately.
Governor Adeleke, who had previously kept mum on the matter, issued a directive at the State Executive Council meeting held on Friday, ordering the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Dosu Babatunde, to act swiftly.
Adeleke directed Babatunde to “take action on the ugly development at Ipetumodu where the king was recently jailed in the United States of America.”WE KNOW THE ECONOMY IS HARD! CLICK HERE TO GET FREE DATA TO BROWSE THE INTERNET. THANK YOU!
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