{"id":1216821,"date":"2022-10-05T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/im-a-changed-man-my-priorities-in-life-has-changed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:40:42","slug":"im-a-changed-man-my-priorities-in-life-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/im-a-changed-man-my-priorities-in-life-has-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A Changed Man, My Priorities In Life Has Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2>Nigerian fraudster and Instagram big boy, Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi, has stated that he is a changed man while pleading for leniency ahead of his sentencing.<\/h2>\n<p>Ahead of his sentencing in November, Hushpuppi wrote a hand-written letter to the trial judge, Otis Wright, of the US Central District of California, urging him to be tamper justice with mercy.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote his emotional letter dated September 9 to the judge from detention in Central Valley Annex Prions in McFarland, California.<\/p>\n<p>The three-page letter was part of the documents his lawyers have so far filed at the court, urging the judge to reduce his sentence below the calculated range dictated by statute.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Hushpuppi pledged to refund $1.7 million in restitution to the victims of his fraudulent schemes, adding that he only benefitted $300,000 from the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Honour, I totally recognise the seriousness of my offence and no amount of sorry can right my wrong in the hearts of the victims and this is why I have decided to use my personal money to offset all of the entire $1,700,000 restitution even though I only benefited a fraction of $300,000 plus but it makes me feel better that all the victims get every of their penny back,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Hushpuppi added, \u201cI personally consider it as part punishment for myself and it\u2019s the right thing to do. Your Honour, I really am a changed person in the way I think, see life and make decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy priorities in life has (sic) changed, my focus in life has shifted, I have realised how precious life and freedom is and how important it is to be on the right side of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Honour, I will like to plead with you to see my act of forfeiting my properties that I worked hard for, for many years, for full restitution repayment as part punishment as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian has been in detention since his arrest in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and rendition to the US in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Nigerian fraudster and Instagram big boy, Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi, has stated that he is a changed man while pleading for leniency ahead of his sentencing. Ahead of his sentencing in November, Hushpuppi wrote a hand-written letter to the trial judge, Otis Wright, of the US Central District of California, urging him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8581,696,697,19472],"class_list":["post-1216821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-changed","tag-life","tag-man","tag-priorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}