Feds Revoking Citizenship of Convicted Tax-Fraud Migrant
Convicted Nigerian Fraudster Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem. Dept. of JusticeDept. of Justice
Warner Todd Huston19 Mar 2026239
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The Justice Department is revoking the citizenship of a man who operated a huge tax-fraud scheme, the government says.
The DOJ filed its case on Wednesday to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Nigerian National Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem for a conspiracy to steal the identities of U.S. citizens and filing false tax returns in 2017, the department said in a press release.
The filing comes after Kazeem was convicted of 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, however, in 2024, President Biden had commuted the convict’s sentence.
Despite Biden’s act, the Trump administration says it is not prepared to ignore Kazeem’s convictions.
“The Trump Administration will not permit wrongdoers to retain the U.S. citizenship that they were never entitled to in the first place,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in the press release. “U.S. Citizenship is a privilege, and we will continue to ask courts to revoke a status that was obtained through fraud and deceit.”
Kazeem reportedly committed his crimes both before and after he received his naturalization. The administration also claims that Kazeem had also engaged in a sham marriage to obtain legal resident status, and that he later married a second woman, which disqualifies him from naturalization, officials said.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/03/19/feds-revoking-citizenship-of-convicted-tax-fraud-migrant/
