Convicted Romance Scammer Indicted for Failure to Report to Federal Prison

NEW ORLEANS - On October 23, 2026, a federal grand jury indicted EMUOBOSAN EMMANUELLA HALL ("HALL"), age 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, for failure to report to the Bureau of Prisons to serve a sentence, announced United States Attorney David I. Courcelle.

HALL, a citizen of Nigeria and a U.S. permanent resident, had been sentenced to eight years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo for her role in a romance scam. HALL is currently at large, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest.

According to a criminal complaint issued in this matter, HALL was indicted in April 2024 by a federal grand jury in New Orleans for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. She was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, and granted bond. HALL subsequently pleaded guilty. In January 2026, U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced HALL to 96 months in prison. Judge Milazzo permitted HALL to remain on bond and ordered her to report to her designated Bureau of Prisons institution to serve her sentence by March 25, 2026.

However, HALL did not report as ordered. According to GPS data from her monitoring device, HALL's last known location was Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 24, 2026, where the device ceased operating. HALL had provided her probation officer with her flight information to Minnesota, where she was designated to serve her sentence. According to airline records, HALL did not board that flight.

Previously, HALL pled guilty to conspiring to defraud mostly older women in a romance scam. Her codefendant, Kenneth G. Akpieyi, of Marietta, Georgia, was convicted after a four-day jury trial in July 2025 and sentenced by Judge Milazzo to 25 years in prison. According to evidence presented at trial and court documents, members of this conspiracy falsely represented themselves to be generals, philanthropists, or entrepreneurs who lived outside the United States. Conspirators would meet victims on Facebook, Instagram, and similar social media platforms, gain the trust of the victims, and ask the victims to move their conversations to WhatsApp or another encrypted platform. Thereafter, the perpetrators would foster a romantic relationship with their victims and ask the victims to send money for fraudulent reasons, such as to help with charitable work or to assist sick family members. According to court documents, Akpieyi and HALL organized a company, Le Beau Monde LLC, which they used in furtherance of the romance scam. HALL would deposit victim funds into accounts held in the name of her company and then transfer those funds to accounts at other financial institutions, including foreign banks. HALL admitted to responsibility for $851,207.00 in losses to victims of this scheme, while Akpieyi was found to be responsible for victim losses exceeding $3.5 million. Akpieyi was remanded into custody after trial, and he is currently serving his sentence in the Bureau of Prisons.

United States Attorney Courcelle stated, "HALL was convicted for defrauding our vulnerable, elderly citizens out of their retirement funds. Her flight from the law demonstrates her utter disregard of our judicial system. We will continue to pursue HALL, and any person who may be facilitating her failure to appear to serve her federal prison sentence."

If convicted, HALL faces a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years of imprisonment to be served consecutively to her prior sentence. She may be fined up to $250,000, and she may receive a term of supervised release of up to three years. She must also pay a $100 mandatory assessment fee. The matter has been allotted to U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown under Criminal Action No. 26-255 "G".

Anyone with information on EMUOBOSAN EMMANUELLA HALL's location should call 1-800-CALL-FBI or reach out online at https://tips.fbi.gov. The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward leading to her arrest.