CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Medina man who also serves as a public official in Nigeria was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison for creating a slew of fake businesses to bilk the government out of $4.2 million in coronavirus relief money.
Joseph Oloyede, 62, and a Willoughby man owned real businesses but created others on paper, lied on applications for money meant to help small businesses stay afloat during the pandemic and recruited people to fill out the faked forms.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko sentenced Oloyede to four years and eight months in prison and ordered him to pay $4.2 million in restitution, along with another $195,000 to the IRS for filing false tax returns…