Wife of Md. Airport Worker Gets 5 Years in Fraud

The wife of a former baggage handler at Baltimore-Washington International Airport was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for her role in a multimillion dollar mail theft scheme.

In a letter, Olushola Oladapo, 46, begged for mercy for the sake of her two children and blamed her involvement on her controlling husband before a federal judge gave her the maximum sentence. She will head to prison in December.

She was convicted in May of possession of stolen mail and aiding and abetting mail theft.

Prosecutors said Kehinde Oladapo, 48, who was sentenced in September to 14 years in prison, stole mail containing checks and credit cards and forwarded it to conspirators in New York City with assistance from his wife.

Those conspirators used the stolen financial documents to obtain cash advances and withdrawals from lines of credit. Oladapo was paid more than $2,500 a month for his role.

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