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Long Island Man Sentenced For Attempting To Join ISIS Long Island Man Sentenced For Attempting To Join ISIS
Long Island Man Sentenced For Attempting To Join ISIS A Long Island man has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for attempting to provide support and resources in an effort to join the terrorist organization ISIS. Elvis Redzepagic, age 30, of Commack, was sentenced on Friday, Nov. 19, after pleading guilty in April, said Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York,  “With the imposition of today’s lengthy sentence, Redzepagic pays a steep price for his misguided embrace of terrorism and his attempts to join ISIS and the al-Nusrah Front in order to wage violent jihad,” stated Peace.  In early 2015, R…

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Long Island Woman Sentenced For Providing Material Support To ISIS Long Island Woman Sentenced For Providing Material Support To ISIS
Long Island Woman Sentenced For Providing Material Support To ISIS A 30-year-old woman on Long Island will spend more than a decade behind bars for offering material support to ISIS. Brentwood resident Zoobia Shahnaz has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue announced. Specifically, Donoghue said Shahnaz provided more than $150,000 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and attempted to travel to Syria to join ISIS.  According to court papers, between March 2017 and July 2017, Shahnaz defrauded numerous financial institutions to obtain money f…

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by Zak Failla