DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Plaintiff, 
v. 
MARVELLOUS EGHAGHE, 
Defendant. 
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Case No. 3:20-cr-0043 
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ORDER 
 
BEFORE THE COURT is the Report and Recommendation of the magistrate judge, 
filed May 16, 2022, recommending that the Court accept Marvellous Eghaghe’s (“Eghaghe”) 
plea of guilty (ECF No. 57) to Count One of the Indictment, charging Wire Fraud, in violation 
of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. For the reasons stated below, the Court will adopt the Report and 
Recommendation.  
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, “[w]ithin fourteen days after being served with a copy [of 
the Report and Recommendation], any party may serve and file written objections to such 
proposed findings and recommendations as provided by rules of court. A judge of the court 
shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed 
findings or recommendations to which objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). Here, 
neither party filed an objection within fourteen days of service of the Report and 
Recommendation. Therefore, “the scope of [the Court’s] review is far more limited and is 
conducted under the far more deferential standard of ‘plain error’.” Tice v. Wilson, 425 F. 
Supp. 2d 676, 680 (W.D. Pa. 2006) aff’d, 276 Fed. App’x 125 (3d Cir. 2008); see Henderson v. 
Carlson, 812 F.2d 874, 878 (3d Cir. 1987) (“While . . . [28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)] may not require, 
in the absence of objections, the district court to review the magistrate’s report before 
accepting it, we believe that the better practice is for the district judge to afford some level 
of review to dispositive legal issues raised by the report.”).  
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After carefully reviewing the record and the Report and Recommendation for plain 
error, the Court does not find plain error in any of the magistrate judge’s factual and legal 
findings. Therefore, pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the 
Court finds that Defendant Eghaghe entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily, and 
that there was a factual basis for the plea. The Court, therefore, will adopt the Report and 
Recommendation and find Eghaghe guilty as to Count One of the Indictment. 
Accordingly, it is hereby 
 
ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (ECF No. 57) is ADOPTED; it is 
further 
ORDERED that Defendant Marvellous Eghaghe’s plea of guilty as to Count One of the 
Indictment is ACCEPTED, and Defendant Eghaghe is adjudged GUILTY on that count; it is 
further 
 
ORDERED that, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(c)(1)(A), the U.S. Probation Office shall 
conduct a presentence investigation for the preparation of a presentence report; it is further 
 
ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the preliminary presentence 
report to the parties no later than August 25, 2022; it is further   
ORDERED that the parties shall submit any objections or corrections to the 
preliminary presentence report to the U.S. Probation Office no later than September 8, 2022; 
it is further   
ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the final presentence report to 
the parties and the Court no later than September 22, 2022; it is further  
ORDERED that the parties shall file their sentencing memoranda no later than 
October 6, 2022; and it is further    
 
ORDERED that a sentencing hearing shall be held on Thursday, October 13, 2022, at 
9:30 A.M. in St. Thomas Courtroom No. 1 before Judge Robert A. Molloy.       
 
 
Date: May 31, 2022  
 
/s/_Robert A. Molloy  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
ROBERT A. MOLLOY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Judge 
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