Woodberry went down with Hushpuppi due to their arrogance and love for flaunting and spending lavishly on social media.
He has been charged in the United States District Court in Chicago with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
According to the source: "He (Woodberry) ordered an FBI agent to wire some funds, which were converted into Bitcoins, to an account he controls and that aided to his downfall"
Hushpuppi and two of his associates, Mr Woodberry and Efe, were arrested some days back for allegedly hacking into the United States (US) unemployed database and impersonating citizens qualified for unemployment funds.
According to The Nation, Hushpuppi and his accomplices in Nigeria, Dubai and other countries allegedly defrauded the United States Government of over $100 million meant for Native Americans in the battle against the Corona-virus Pandemic.
They were arrested after weeks of investigation by the United States Secret Service, following the alarm raised in May about a crime ring of suspected Nigerians who broke into the personal information of citizens and used false unemployment claims to cart away hundreds of millions of dollars reserved to help jobless American people.
They were alleged to have filed in so many names of Americans who were still working to various state unemployment offices and collected money from the system. They were alleged to have used information stolen from first responders, government personnel, and school employees.
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