Abdoul Issaka Assimiou of Parma, Ohio was sentenced to 63 months for laundering money from elderly romance scam victims for co-conspirators in Ghana. The story is not really about him. It is about the woman who wired the money.
Samuel Marcus held a security clearance at the Defense Logistics Agency and pleaded guilty on July 6, 2026 to laundering millions for the same Nigerian fraud crew that had first pulled him in through a romance scam. The FBI told him what he was doing. He kept doing it.
A Shakopee grandmother heard her grandson's voice on the phone, crying about a car wreck and a jail cell. The voice wasn't her grandson. The $10,000 she shipped to New Jersey was the bait that finally caught the courier.