Friday, January 18, 2013
Victoria Ayoola, 53, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court.
A Woodbury woman was sentenced Friday for using an alternative identity to obtain more than $18,000 in low-income housing tax credits. Victoria Ayoola, 53, was sentenced to two years of probation on a count of Social Security fraud and one count of making false statements, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Ayoola was also ordered to pay $18,114 in restitution. She was indicted on July 10, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Aug. 23, 2012. U.S. District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen handed down the sentence. “This type of fraud poses serious security vulnerability, one that often contributes to a host of other crimes —including identity theft and financial fraud. Targeting schemes like this that enable individuals to obtain …
Friday, August 24, 2012
Oluremi George, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of social security fraud and one count of making false statements to authorities.
A Woodbury woman on Thursday pleaded guilty to using an alternative identity to receive more than $18,000 in federal tax credits. Oluremi George, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of social security fraud and one count of making false statements, according to a release from the U.S. Justice Department. She was indicted July 10 and entered her plea before U.S. District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen. As part of the plea agreement, George admitted that she applied for and received a social security card under the name Victoria Ayoola on November 19, 1996, the release says. George used the false identities to received Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and her fraud has resulted in …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Here's a weekly listing of crime incidents and police and fire related calls in Washington County.
The following is a collection of articles that appeared on Stillwater Patch, Woodbury Patch and Oakdale Patch the week of July 16-21. Click on the headline to read the full article. Fleeing an Officer, Drug Possession, Assaults: Jail Bookings Jail bookings information from July 10 to July 15 provided by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Car Fires, House Fires, Trash Can Fire: Oakdale Fire Blotter A report of some of the incidents responded to by the Oakdale Fire Department. Oakdale Woman Gets 3 Years Probation for Striking Car After Drinking and Driving Nicole Marie Nord, 27, was convicted in Washington County Court for criminal vehicular operation after crashing into another car while under the influence. Shoplifting, Check Forgery…
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Oluremi George, 53, used two identities to receive housing tax credits, according to multiple reports.
Authorities say a Woodbury woman used two identities to secure more than $18,000 in low-income housing tax credits from the federal government, according to multiple reports. Oluremi George, 53, was indicted on five counts of Social Security fraud, four counts of making false statements and one count of passport fraud, according to a KSTP report. The Pioneer Press reports that the woman worked in the Secretary of State’s Office for seven years under an alias. The indictment was unsealed Monday, according to the reports. George used the alias Victoria Ayoola and a fake Social Security number when she applied for a low-income unit at Pondview Townhomes, a Woodbury development that provides housing assistance to its residents through HUD …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Three people were indicted last week for allegedly defrauding metro area Target stores out of more than $12,000 worth of merchandise.
Woodbury’s Target store—along with more than 10 others in the metro area—fell victim to a check fraud scheme that cost them more than $12,000 total, according to a press release from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office. Three people were indicted in federal court last week in connection with the scheme, according to the release. Ci’Preaunni Ja’Von Stewart, 21, and Ryan Lamarr Chambers were charged with 19 counts of bank fraud in one indictment. Jamee Leah Spillman, 38, was charged with 15 counts of bank fraud in a separate indictment. Authorities say that from July through October 2011, the trio passed counterfeit checks at stores, primarily Target, and allegedly claimed the checks were traveler’s checks, causing their counterfeit nature…
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Target Stores
7200 Valley Creek Plz, Woodbury, MN
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Amber Louise Reyes allegedly won more than $300,000 at the casino, but didn't report it as income to her Washington County caseworker.
A 27-year-old Cottage Grove woman was overpaid more than $20,000 in Washington County aid after she allegedly failed to report nearly $300,000 in winnings at casinos since 2007. Amber Louise Reyes was charged by the Washington County Attorney’s Office last week with wrongfully obtaining government assistance. According to the criminal complaint: Washington County detectives started looking into a fraud referral from Washington County Community Services on Jan. 20, 2010 after it was reported that she failed to disclose gambling winnings while receiving benefits from Washington County in the form of food support, medical assistance and childcare help. Detectives believe Reyes won $2,640 in 2007, $212,880 in 2008 and $63,600 in 2009. When …
Thursday, April 14, 2011
A Woodbury man was indicted in federal court this week for allegedly conspiring to defraud Medicaid, along with an Oakdale man.
Authorities say two local men conspired to collect more than $1 million from Medicaid for personal care attendant services they never provided, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Samuel Akoto Danso, 41, of Woodbury, and Harry Kwabena Ossei, 51, of Oakdale, gave personal care attendants and Medicaid recipients a cut of the proceeds from their fraudulent filings in exchange for allowing them to use their identities in the alleged scheme, said Jeanne Cooney, director of community relations for the Minnesota District U.S. Attorney’s Office. In other cases they stole identification information to make the fraudulent charges, she said. Ossei and Danso each owned two health care agencies that operated in Minnesota, …
Monday, February 28, 2011
The general manager of the Woodbury Sheraton says he expects the restaurant to reopen at some point.
The closure of Aperitif Restaurant and Bar had nothing to do with a fraud investigation of the ownership group and the restaurant will likely reopen at some point, according to the general manager of the Sheraton Hotel. Hotel General Manager Patrick Short said he was tasked with assisting in the restaurant’s closure. JLT Group, Inc., which is the subject of a federal fraud investigation, owns the hotel and nearby restaurant, in addition to other parcels in Woodbury. “At this point it was decided that we’d close,” Short told Woodbury Patch on Monday morning. “We are officially closed now but I believe the goal is to reopen. I don’t believe that it is a close and sell it off kind of thing.” He could not speak to the specifics of the FBI and …
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Sheraton St. Paul Woodbury Hotel
676 Bielenberg Dr, Woodbury, MN
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Aperitif Restaurant and Bar
772 Bielenberg Dr, Saint Paul, MN
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Federal authorities are in the midst of a fraud investigation of the company that owns the restaurant.
Aperitif Restaurant and Bar will close Monday, just days after a federal investigation of the company that owns the Woodbury establishment was launched. An Aperitif employee confirmed the closure to Woodbury Patch, but directed calls to the general manager of the nearby Sheraton Hotel. Both are owned by JLT Group, Inc., which is the subject of a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service fraud investigation. An employee at the Woodbury Sheraton said the hotel would remain open, to his knowledge. The general manager did not immediately return phone calls from Woodbury Patch. Officials with the FBI and IRS executed a search warrant at JLT Group’s St. Paul headquarters last Friday, FBI special agent Steve Warfield said, …
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Aperitif Restaurant and Bar
772 Bielenberg Dr, Saint Paul, MN
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Sheraton St. Paul Woodbury Hotel
676 Bielenberg Dr, Woodbury, MN
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Friday, February 18, 2011
FBI agent confirms fraud investigation is underway but would not elaborate on the nature of the case.
Authorities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service on Thursday executed a search warrant at the office of a St. Paul investment and development firm that owns property in Woodbury. FBI special agent Steve Warfield said the warrant was related to a fraud investigation of JLT Group, Inc., but would not comment on the direction of the case. The company lists the Sheraton Hotel and Aperitif Restaurant in Woodbury, in addition to land near Tamarack Road and Interstate 494 and other parcels, among its properties, according to its Web site. Officials searched the offices at 10 River Park Plaza, Suite 800 in St. Paul, the headquarters of Jerry Trooien's JLT Group Inc., Warfield said. Employees at JLT Group did not …
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