Tennessee man sentenced to nearly four years in Fresno wire fraud

A federal judge sentenced Jafaar September Nyangoro, 53, of Tennessee, to three years and 10 months in prison for helping divert Fresno County payments in a wire-fraud scheme. Nyangoro and co-conspirators gained access to a Fresno nonprofit finance director’s email and used it to submit fraudulent invoices and redirect county payments to a bank account Nyangoro controlled. The scheme sent more than $1.5 million to that account in 2020; the court ordered Nyangoro to pay $1.178 million in restitution. Fresno County recovered some funds, and county officials praised investigators and prosecutors while noting that restitution cannot fully compensate taxpayers. Nyangoro pleaded guilty and had been in custody since May 2025.