Overview

• A Nigeria-based fraudster spoofed Steve Witkoff’s email domain on Christmas Eve to trick a Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee donor into wiring 250,300 USDT.
• The stolen funds were routed through multiple blockchain wallets within two hours to conceal their origin.
• FBI analysts traced and froze 40,300 USDT in a Binance account linked to Lagos-based suspect Ehiremen Aigbokhan.
• U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to return the recovered assets to the defrauded donor.
• Authorities are pursuing an arrest warrant for Aigbokhan and working with Binance and Tether to recover more than $210,000 still outstanding.