A Nigerian, Kunle Sodipo Williams, who resided in St. Louis,
Missouri in the United States has pleaded guilty to mail fraud,
aggravated identity theft, voter fraud and illegally re-entering the
country after having been removed.
Williams who faces a maximum 20 year jail term for the offences and deportation, will be sentenced in October.
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the
Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Carrie
Costantin for the Eastern District of Missouri, said Sodipo entered the
guilty plea in a Federal court in Alabama.
According to documents filed with the court, Kevin Kunlay(Kunle)
Williams aka Kunlay Sodipo, 56, and others stole public school
employees’ IDs from a payroll company and used them to electronically
file more than 2,000 fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking more
than $12 million in refunds.
He also stole several return preparer’s Electronic Filing
Identification Numbers (EFINs) and used them to secure tax-related bank
products and services that facilitated the issuance of tax refunds, to
include blank check stock and debit cards. Williams used the blank stock
to print checks funded by the fraudulent refunds and directed some of
the refunds onto debit cards.
Williams previously entered the United States from Nigeria under the
name Kunlay Sodipo, but was deported in 1995. In 1999, Williams
illegally returned to the United States from Nigeria using the last name
Williams.
In 2012, Williams registered to vote in federal, state and local
elections by falsely claiming that he was a U.S. citizen and voted in
the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.
Williams remains in federal custody and his sentencing is scheduled
for Oct. 13 before Chief U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
Williams faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for
mail fraud, 10 years in prison for illegal reentry, five years in
prison for each voter fraud count and a mandatory minimum sentence of
two years in prison for aggravated identity theft.
Williams also faces a period of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and deportation.
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Goldberg and Acting U.S.
Attorney Costantin commended special agents of IRS Criminal
Investigation, FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service as well as the
Dothan, Alabama Police Department and Alexander City, Alabama Police
Department, who investigated the case.
Goldberg and Constantin also commended Trial Attorneys Michael C.
Boteler and Charles M. Edgar, Jr. of the Tax Division, who are
prosecuting the case with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in
the Eastern District of Missouri and Middle District of Alabama.
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