{"id":77117,"date":"2025-07-05T18:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77117"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:47:51","slug":"us-court-jails-nigerian-pastor-over-4-2m-covid-19-fraud-as-osun-monarch-forfeits-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/us-court-jails-nigerian-pastor-over-4-2m-covid-19-fraud-as-osun-monarch-forfeits-property\/","title":{"rendered":"US court jails Nigerian pastor over $4.2m COVID-19 fraud, as Osun monarch forfeits property"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/newsdigest.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Apetu-of-Ipetumodu-in-Osun-State-Oba-Joseph-Oloyede-and-a-Nigerian-pastor-Edward-Oluwasanmi.png\" alt=\"Osun Monarch, Pastor Plead Guilty To COVID-19 Fraud in the US - News Digest\" width=\"564\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A United States District Court has sentenced Edward Oluwasanmi, a Nigerian pastor, to 27 months in prison for his role in a $4.2 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, while his co-defendant, Joseph Oloyede,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/07\/us-court-jails-nigerian-pastor-over-4-2m-covid-19-fraud-as-osun-monarch-forfeits-property\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A United States District Court has sentenced Edward Oluwasanmi, a Nigerian pastor, to 27 months in prison for his role in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Pastor-Edward-Abiodun-Oluwasanmi.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77118,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77117\/revisions\/77118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}