Mona Faiz Montrage, alias Hajia4Reall was sentenced to jail by an American courtroom on June 28, 2024, in a romance fraud case that began in 2023 together with her extradition from the United Kingdom.
She pleaded responsible earlier this 12 months and has now been sentenced to 1 12 months and at some point in jail within the United States of America.
Her attorneys had earlier argued for 3 months jail time period citing her little daughter and the truth that she didn’t have earlier felony file.
The prosecution argued {that a} lengthier time period will function deterrent for others concerned in comparable schemes.
According to Inner City Press, an American outfit that has adopted the case since its inception, Hajia4Reall shed tears at some extent throughout sentencing expressing that she was ashamed of being a mom of an 8-year-old.
“I want to pay them back. I feel shame as a mother of an 8 year-old daughter. [Sobs] Please have mercy on me,” she is quoted to have stated when he lawyer sought a decrease jail time period.
Read an excerpt from proceedings on the ultimate day:
Judge: The guideline is 37 to 46 months.
Assistant US Attorney (AUSA): The victims have been susceptible senior residents. Some have been promised marriage; they despatched and misplaced cash. Middlemen acquired 10%. AUSA: Defendant participated on this scheme fir six years. 32 victims misplaced $1.4 million. Meanwhile Ms. Montrage reinvented herself in Ghana.
Judge: She blames an abusive former boyfriend.
AUSA: He was arrested and deported. She continued. One sufferer confronted her…
Judge: She will likely be deported.
Defense lawyer: 3 months incarceration can be sufficient. She did not know the cash going into her account was from romance fraud.
Judge: She created a number of financial institution accounts.
Defense: She’s by no means earlier than disclosed her abuse by her ex boyfriend.
Montrage: I wish to pay them again. I really feel disgrace as a mom of an 8 year-old daughter. [Sobs] Please have mercy on me.
AUSA: She began opening these accounts at completely different banks at an earlier time. Many in Ghana are following this case. General deterrence is required
Defense: Victim-1 tracked her from her instagram photographs – her video had a voice dubbed over, Victim-1 was catfished
Judge: I sentence Ms Montrage to 1 12 months and at some point in jail, the additional day to permit “good time.”
Defense: We suggest she be allowed to fly again to Ghana as quickly as she is launched, with no ICE detention
AUSA: We consent
What is ICE?
ICE stands for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It primarily is the company that makes a custody willpower.
Information on its web site acknowledged: “ICE uses its limited detention resources to detain noncitizens to secure their presence for immigration proceedings or removal from the United States — as well as those that are subject to mandatory detention, as outlined by the Immigration and Nationality Act, or those that ICE determines are a public safety or flight risk during the custody determination process.
“When a noncitizen just isn’t topic to necessary detention or just isn’t deemed to be a public security or flight danger, ICE workout routines its discretion in making custody determinations to launch noncitizens with circumstances. These custody choices are made on a case-by-case foundation and after contemplating the totality of circumstances — primarily contemplating danger of flight, nationwide safety menace and danger to public security.
“ICE also takes other factors into consideration — including when a noncitizen has a serious medical condition, is the primary caregiver of minor children, or other humanitarian considerations,” it added.
Hajia4Reall was charged and extradited from the United Kingdom the place she was arrested to the USA for her function in a romance scheme.
According to experiences obtainable to this web site, the socialite who had been speaking about her rise via entrepreneurship was concerned in a romance rip-off to the tune of $2 million.
She is alleged to have spoken to one among her victims a number of occasions and acquired wire transfers to the tune of $89,000 to assist fund her father’s farm.
The socialite was charged with one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one depend of cash laundering conspiracy and one depend of cash laundering, she was additionally charged with one depend of receipt of stolen cash.
VLOG II June 28: Ghana influencer Mona Faiz Montrage a/ok/a @Hajia4Reall was this afternoon sentenced to a 12 months and a day in US jail then flight straight again to Ghana, no ICE – @SDNYLIVE Inner City Press thread: https://t.co/nv5NDDuPCK pic.twitter.com/SAOVBRrS6D
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) June 28, 2024
OK – now at sentencing of #Ghana “influencer” Mona Faiz Montrage for love scsms. She’s requested for 3 months in jail: US desires 37 months. As solely media right here, Inner City Press will stay tweet, thread under https://t.co/JyWx1OULRY
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) June 28, 2024
Source: Twitter/ghanaweb
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