{"id":371479,"date":"2026-06-23T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:52:08","slug":"tennessee-man-pleads-guilty-in-scam-attempt-involving-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371479\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee man pleads guilty in scam attempt involving Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, June 23, 2026 1:23PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Tennessee man pleads guilty in scam attempt involving Fresno County\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Tennessee man pleaded guilty to trying to scam Fresno County out of more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office says Jafaar Nyangoro and his accomplice from Germany gained access to the email account of a Fresno nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors say the pair instructed the county that money for the nonprofit should be sent to a different account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But communications between the men show the bank reversed some transfers for suspected fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nyangoro and his accomplice then realized that the authorities had discovered their scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Nyangoro is scheduled to be sentenced in September and faces the maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, June 23, 2026 1:23PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Tennessee man pleaded guilty to trying to scam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[150542,29796,112,622,114,113,5751,150541,294],"class_list":["post-371479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-150542","tag-fraud-scheme","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-nonprofit","tag-tennesee-man","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}