[ April 25, 2024 ]
A Long Island woman was sentenced after being found guilty of laundering more than $85,000 through Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies overseas to the Islamic State. After she laundered the money to people in Pakistan, China and Turkey, federal officials say, she “planned to travel to Syria and join ISIS.”
She was captured while she was at the New York Airport with a plane ticket to Turkey en-route to to Syria.
For her cover, her day job, Shahnaz filled in at a doctor’s facility specialist in New York.
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Authorities said that she went to the US on a visa utilized by the relatives of US subjects …..
Long Island Woman Sentenced to 13 Years’ Imprisonment for Providing Material Support to ISIS
Department of Justice, Friday, March 13, 2020
Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Zoobia Shahnaz was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically more than $150,000 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIS. Shahnaz pleaded guilty in November 2018.
John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Dermot F. Shea, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced the sentence.
As set forth in court filings and facts presented at the sentencing hearing, between March 2017 and July 2017, Shahnaz defrauded numerous financial institutions to obtain money for ISIS, including a loan for approximately $22,500. Shahnaz also fraudulently obtained more than a dozen credit cards and used them to purchase approximately $62,000 in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies online. Shahnaz then made multiple wire transfers totaling more than $150,000 to individuals and entities in Pakistan, China and Turkey that were fronts for ISIS.
Shahnaz accessed ISIS violent jihad-related websites and message boards, and social media and messaging pages of known ISIS recruiters, facilitators and financiers. She also performed numerous internet searches for information that would facilitate her entry into Syria. Court-authorized search warrants executed at Shahnaz’s residence on Long Island resulted in the seizure of terrorist and jihad-related propaganda, including a photograph of a suicide belt of explosives and a night vision scope.
On July 31, 2017, Shahnaz was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, while attempting to board a flight with a layover in Istanbul, Turkey – a common point of entry for individuals travelling from western countries to join ISIS in Syria.
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s National Security and Cybercrime Section and Long Island Criminal Division. Assistant United States Attorney Artie McConnell is in charge of the prosecution, with assistance provided by Trial Attorney Joseph Attias of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.
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35 Comments
4 years ago
What was her original country???
4 years ago
Reply to
cylde
Although, living in the U.S. and being referred to as a Long Island woman …. She’s a pakky from pakkyland (Pakistan to left wing-nut regressives).
4 years ago
Reply to
cylde
Guessing … Pakistan?
After she laundered the money to people in Pakistan, China and Turkey, federal officials say, she “planned to travel to Syria and join ISIS.”
4 years ago
Reply to
Bagsgroove
pakkyland. pukistan. It’s someplace relatively close to bangerdouche.
4 years ago
It should be death or deportation for terror supporters
UN Supports Jihadi Invasion and Islamic Takeover of Non-Muslim Lands
And rejects Trump’s choice For daring to speak the Truth About it to head UN’s International Organization for Migration http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/un-supports-jihadi-invasion/
why fund them ?
4 years ago
And if she was a Leftist Black President ‘Muslim’,……… she’d recieve a Nobel Prize,… for ‘PEACE’ ?!!!
$150,000,000,000 Billion given to Iranian Mullahs ….. yeah, that’s a Peace Plan Leftist can get behind !!!
4 years ago
This human waste should be shot as a traitor. Plain and simple.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mel Carver
But hauling her to the public square and then having her hanged by the neck until dead .. is SO much more entertaining.
4 years ago
Just like the president.
Stop the disastrous missile defense-deal with Saudi Arabia.
African slaves liberation Now.
4 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
And, little wizzy, would you take the time to learn to properly read and write English? Good grief.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You’re missing out on a LOT of fun, laughing AT it, whatever in he hayull it is.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
It’s hilarious he lobbies for American English as the global standard yet can’t seem to write it well himself.
4 years ago
In the topsy turvy world of progressive values, Shahnaz will be lauded as some kind of philanthropist to the valued cause of diversity and tolerance. Yes, some really are that dumb.
However, her actions should be the cause of some small debate into how one identifies one of life’s great unicorns, that nebulous creature the “peaceful muslim.”
The sophistry used by the progressive left to explain away her beliefs and actions will prove instructive.
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Diversity divides because there is no common foundation to unite people. The left is not logical. Now we have people repeating the ridiculous mantra of , “diversity is our strength”. Diversity is our weakness and pits one group against another group destroying any healthy kind of cohesion.
We hope all is going well with you and your wife.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’m OK so far felix, just shopping, cooking, washing and ironing plus one or two less agreeable jobs which remain essential and the saints be praised the mrs will finish her course of antibiotics late tuesday so then her activity will pick up as will the level of cheek aimed at yours truly.
It’s this banter which “sugars the medicine” a bit and we cannot do without it. Keep well yourselves wont you.
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Perpetrate fraud. Defraud banks and credit card companies to raise the cash. That is the pakkyland moslem definition of “philanthropy”.
4 years ago
We need the death penalty for these types of offenses. It’s an act of war.
Treason.
And abusing the United States’ citizens by using funds obtained under false pretexts to further a war effort abroad.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Yup, execution. And her whole family and everyone around her deported and banned for life from the U.S. And if they come back, summary execution.
4 years ago
This is chump change. How much funding do the muslum petrocracies (our “allies”) provide to muslum terrorist networks across the globe?
4 years ago
How did she get a VISA? Dare I ask, were her “relatives” checked out yet? We need to make it impossible for them to get VISAS. In fact, “never let a crisis go to waste” should be implemented. Shut down VISA imports and ideally FREEZE all immigration – legal, fake asylum claims and fake refugee claims. Just shut it down.
For her cover, her day job , was Shahnaz filled in at a doctor’s facility specialist in New York. Authorities said that she went to the US on a visa utilized by the relatives of US subjects …..
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
“U S subjects” … Now, that’s a new one for me. Never have I run across one of those.
4 years ago
She plead guilty in Nov 2018, & she JUST NOW got sentenced?
4 years ago
She had to have instruction and assistance in accessing the nearly $200K sent to ISIS.I hope the authorities are tracking them down.I expect there are many more of these vermin pulling the same scams raising money for ISIS and other terrorist groups.
4 years ago
As a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ she should be executed.
4 years ago
Now imagine such a trial being adjudicated by a muslum judge, being prosecuted by a muslum prosecutor and having just one muslum on the jury. I’d assert having even one of those elements would insure the muslimah would’ve resulted in, at worst, a hung jury.
4 years ago
A 13 year prison sentence for this Muslim woman is a gross miscarriage of justice!
ISIS is an enemy of our country.
She provided aid (financial) to ISIS.
Providing aid to the enemies of our country is TREASON and should be punished with death.
We need to stop pussy-footing around with Muslims and giving them special treatment.
By continuing to do so, we put ourselves and our country in grave peril. 
4 years ago
And then deport the parasite when it gets out or just shoot it.
4 years ago
Never ever trust a muzrat!
