WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Ghanaian national was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
According to court documents, from no later than March 2022 until at least July 2022, Emmanuel Gyasi, 29, and his co-conspirators ran a "romance scam" to induce a victim to send money by wire transfers. The conspirators created a fictitious profile on an online dating platform under the name "Jessica Morris" and used the profile to connect and begin a romantic relationship with the victim. The conspirators, pretending to be Morris, told the victim that Morris" had inherited gol...