ALBANY — A New Jersey man convicted of running a multimillion-dollar, nationwide fraud targeting credit union customers — who was led to authorities, in part, thanks to a sharp-eyed Cohoes CapCom teller — was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Monday.
Oluwaseun Adekoya, 40, was found guilty in June on charges of bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and nine counts of aggravated identity theft after a three-week trial.
Adekoya was convicted of defrauding credit unions, including the former Capital Region institutions SEFCU and CapCom, using publicly available information about customers’ home equity lines of credit, federal prosecutors said. Authorities had been pursuing Adekoya since at least December 2021, before they received a break in the case in May 2022…