Feds arrest Phila. treasurer for theft and fraudulently obtaining US citizenship

Philadelphia treasurer Christian Dunbar was arrested by U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain.

“It goes without saying that the duties of Dunbar’s public role require the treasurer to be a trustworthy public servant — someone who is honest beyond reproach. Unfortunately, the alleged conduct, in this case, reveals a pattern of dishonor, poor judgment and criminal behavior that spans many years.”

Unlike Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) who allegedly married her brother for illegal reasons, Dunbar was actually charged with the crime of faking a marriage to illegally obtain U.S. citizenship and also charged with theft and embezzlement from his prior job at a major bank.

Philly Mayor Jim Kenney fired Dunbar on Friday, immediately after federal authorities revealed he had been charged with fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship through a sham marriage and the embezzlement.

FBI agents arrested Dunbar, 40, earlier in the morning at his home in West Philadelphia that he shares with his other wife, Fatoumata Ndiaye-Dunbar. She was also allegedly involved in a sham marriage with a Temple student before marrying Dunbar.

Federal prosecutors said the couple secretly wed in a ceremony in Senegal in 2013, while Dunbar was still legally married to another woman, a U.S. citizen he had met as a student at Temple University and had married seven years before.

The first wife, who was not named, sponsored Dunbar, a Liberian immigrant, for a green card in 2009. They divorced shortly after he obtained citizenship in 2017.

Dunbar came to the U.S. in 1988 and later obtained temporary protected status. He graduated from Temple University, where he was a captain of their mediocre football team (go Owls!).

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