{"id":1034471,"date":"2026-09-10T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034471"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:18:16","slug":"how-whatsapp-messages-and-calls-led-investigators-to-former-uscis-official-in-alleged-960000-american-citizenship-bribery-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/how-whatsapp-messages-and-calls-led-investigators-to-former-uscis-official-in-alleged-960000-american-citizenship-bribery-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How WhatsApp messages and calls led investigators to former USCIS official in alleged $960,000 American citizenship bribery scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of WhatsApp messages and hundreds of phone calls helped investigators uncover an alleged bribery scheme involving a former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) official, prosecutors say. Ex-USCIS official Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu and his alleged financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, have been charged over a scheme in which they allegedly accepted nearly $960,000 to manipulate and speed up immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases.<\/p>\n<p>As per a Fox News report, the two men were arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to receive illegal gratuities by a public official, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Northern District of Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of WhatsApp messages and hundreds of phone calls helped investigators uncover an alleged bribery scheme involving a former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) official, prosecutors say. Ex-USCIS official Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu and his alleged financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, have been charged over a scheme in which they allegedly accepted nearly $960,000 to manipulate and speed up immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases. As per a Fox News report, the two men were arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to receive illegal gratuities by a public official, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Northern District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034472,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034471\/revisions\/1034472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}