Federal prosecutors said a grand jury indicted Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall for failing to report to prison.

Oct. 23 is the indictment date. It is not a conviction on the failure-to-report count. January's eight years, which the release also states as 96 months, is the sentence already imposed in the romance-scam case. The $5,000 figure is the reward. A maximum of ten years, if she is convicted of the new count, is not a term a judge has imposed for it.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana said in a release published Oct. 28, 2026, that on Oct. 23, 2026, a federal grand jury indicted Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall, 46, of Atlanta, for failure to report to the Bureau of Prisons to serve a sentence. United States Attorney David I. Courcelle announced the indictment. The release says she is a citizen of Nigeria and a U.S. permanent resident, that U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced her to eight years in prison for her role in a romance scam, that she is at large, and that a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Eight years is the term in that paragraph. A later paragraph says that in January 2026 Judge Milazzo sentenced her to 96 months. Eight years and 96 months are the same length stated two ways.

The release says that, according to a criminal complaint, she was indicted in April 2024 in New Orleans for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, that she was arrested in Atlanta and granted bond, and that she subsequently pleaded guilty. It says Judge Milazzo allowed her to remain on bond and ordered her to report to her designated Bureau of Prisons institution by March 25, 2026. It says she did not report. It says GPS data from her monitoring device put her last known location at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 24, 2026, where the device ceased operating. It says she had given her probation officer flight information to Minnesota, where she was designated to serve the sentence, and that airline records show she did not board that flight. A last GPS point is not an arrest.

The release says she previously pled guilty to conspiring to defraud mostly older women in a romance scam. Pled, in that paragraph, and pleaded, in the paragraph above, are not the same spelling. It names her codefendant as Kenneth G. Akpieyi, of Marietta, Georgia, and says a jury convicted him after a four-day trial in July 2025 and that Judge Milazzo sentenced him to 25 years. It says conspirators posed as generals, philanthropists, or entrepreneurs living outside the United States, met victims on Facebook, Instagram, and similar platforms, moved conversations to WhatsApp or another encrypted platform, and asked for money for reasons such as charitable work or sick family members. It says Akpieyi and Hall organized Le Beau Monde LLC, that she deposited victim funds into accounts in the company's name and transferred them to other institutions, including foreign banks, and that she admitted responsibility for $851,207 in losses. It says Akpieyi was found responsible for losses exceeding $3.5 million and is serving his sentence. Those figures are the release's account of the earlier case. They are not the new count. The women are not named here.

Courcelle said in the release that Hall was convicted of defrauding vulnerable elderly citizens out of retirement funds, and that the office will keep pursuing her and any person who may be facilitating her failure to appear. The release says that if she is convicted of the new count she faces a maximum of ten years of imprisonment, the release's phrase, to be served consecutively to her prior sentence, a fine of up to $250,000, up to three years of supervised release, and a $100 mandatory assessment. It says the case is allotted to U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown under Criminal Action No. 26-255 "G". It says the FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to her arrest, and it tells the public to call 1-800-CALL-FBI. It also prints a web address for tips. This story does not. The release says Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew R. Payne is in charge of the prosecution. It says Courcelle reiterated that the indictment is merely an allegation and that guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The January sentence is the judgment in the romance-scam case. The Oct. 23 indictment is the new allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.