{"id":194062,"date":"2025-11-29T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=194062"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:19:20","slug":"nigerian-in-u-s-jailed-2%c2%bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=194062","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian in U.S. jailed 2\u00bd years for $290,000 COVID-19 relief fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temitope Bashua, a United States-based Nigerian, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. of $290,000.Y U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher handed down the sentence on Thursday, citing Bashua\u2019s involvement in a \u201cconspiracy and scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance (UI) \u2026<br \/>\nThe article was originally published on Politics Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/nigerian-in-u-s-jailed-2%C2%BD-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temitope Bashua, a United States-based Nigerian, has been sentenced to two and a half years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud-300x206.jpg",300,206,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud.jpg",612,421,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194062-nigerian-in-us-jailed-2c2bd-years-for-290000-covid-19-relief-fraud-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}