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The man behind the scheme is sentenced to 42 months in prison after using at least 20 people's identities to fraudulently get financial COVID benefits.
NORFOLK — A man who used other people’s identities to obtain roughly $600,000 in pandemic relief aid was sentenced this week to 3½ years in federal prison. Among his victims was a Norfolk judge. The sentence was issued Wednesday to Obinna Nwafor, 50, in U.S. District Court in Norfolk by Judge Roderick C. Young, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. Nwafor, a resident of .
Obinna Nwafor, a resident of New York, used personal identification information for about 20 people to obtain pandemic-related loans and benefits. A Norfolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court judge was among those whose stolen identity was used to get the funding.