The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has reported that Nnamdi Felix Udeagha, a 39-year-old resident of Humble, Texas, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The indictment claimed that from April to December 2021, Udeagha and others devised a scheme to fraudulently obtain money and property from the Chickasaw Nation Department of Health using false pretenses through interstate wire communications.
Court records revealed that the Chickasaw Nation Department of Health received emails appearing to be from a legitimate vendor. These emails instructed funds to be wired to specific bank accounts. It was later discovered that these emails were sent by a member of the conspiracy and that the bank accounts were set up by conspirators for receiving and distributing the illicitly acquired funds.
During his plea hearing, Udeagha confessed to facilitating the fraud by providing bank account details to a co-conspirator who sent the fraudulent emails. He admitted working with another conspirator for mutual benefit.
The charge resulted from an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The plea was accepted by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerald L. Jackson in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, who also ordered a presentence investigation report. Udeagha will remain in custody under the United States Marshals Service until sentencing.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kara Traster and Joshua Satter represented the prosecution in this case.
