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How Kenyan scammers targeted Uncle Sam
"All of these people, all of them, were merely servants of the puppet masters in Kenya who manipulated them from the safety of Kenya.” Attorney Gary Collias
By Kevin J Kelley In New York
Posted Sunday, September 5 2010 at 10:45
Posted Sunday, September 5 2010 at 10:45
In Summary
- Using slightly altered names of Deloitte Consulting, Unisys and other respected American firms, Kenyan crooks set out to defraud American states from Nairobi until things went wrong
The comparatively light sentence given to Muthoni, despite her pivotal role in the fraud, reflected the extensive assistance she provided US prosecutors. Muthoni helped identify or explain the roles of the five other Kenyans in the case.
And, according to an AP report on Tuesday, she had also given US prosecutors the e-mail addresses used by the scam’s central figures in Kenya.
US prosecutor Goodwin says he does not think it is likely that the convicted Kenyans will be able to fulfil orders of restitution to the agencies they swindled.
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