In January 2015, Samuel Manu Agyapong, a U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, married Barbara Oppong, a Ghanaian citizen unlawfully present in the United States, in a wedding that existed only on paper. Over the next several years, Agyapong weaponized that marriage against two institutions at once, collecting married-rate Basic Allowance for Housing from the Army on the honor-system claim that his marital and dependency status was true, while filing fraudulent USCIS applications that won Oppong a green card she was never entitled to. After a tipster alerted Army Criminal Investigation Detachment to the sham marriage, Homeland Security Investigations in the Eastern District of North Carolina built the case. ––– Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.