He’s still scamming!
A Rikers Island inmate from Nigeria — who faces six years in prison when he’s sentenced for identify theft today — filed a $12 million lawsuit against the city, claiming that negligent health care by prison dentists left him in fear for his penis.
“I am constantly scared of having a stroke . . . thereby loosing [sic] my ability to use my reproductive organ,” Okechykwu Okoronkwo, 34, handwrote in the suit he filed in Manhattan federal court. “This all could have been prevented if not for the insufficient treatment on the part of DOC [Department of Correction] and its medical staff.”
Okoronkwo first saw a Rikers dentist in February 2011 after he complained of mouth pain, according to the April suit.
The con artist said that he saw multiple prison dentists, none of whom did anything to help him, and that he suffered until the necessary dental surgery was performed in November 2011.
“My gum was infected, deteriorating and bleeding with oozing smell,” Okoronkwo wrote in the suit. “I was unable to talk and also unable to show a simple smile, which is one of life’s essentials.”
The thief claims he’s due $12 million because he now suffers from high blood pressure, heart and liver problems and diarrhea.
“He also faces deportation,” a law-enforcement source said. “So I guess he’ll have to get his new dental work in Nigeria.”
Okoronkwo was arrested in 2010 for running a $5 million identity-theft scam that stole money from 27 banks and 60 people. The heartless thief will be sentenced today in Staten Island Supreme Court, according to authorities.
