Sentencing Looms for Teen Who Promoted ISIL Bitcoin Donations
Ali Shukri Amin has been sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison, according to the US Justice Department. A Virginia teenager who offered online advice on how to use bitcoin to fund terrorist group ISIL is to be sentenced today. Federal prosecutors asked US District Court Judge Claude Hilton to sentence 17-year-old Ali Shukri Amin to 15 years in prison after he pled guilty in June to a charge of providing material support to ISIL. In a statement of facts from June, prosecutors said Amin used social media to promote ISIL and discussed "ways to establish a secure donation system"....
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A teenager who allegedly gave ISIL supporters advice on bitcoin has plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the terrorist group. 17-year-old Ali Shukri Amin, from Woodbridge, Virginia, worked as a writer for digital currency news site CoinBrief. He is accused of offering guidance to ISIL (or ISIS) supporters wanting to travel to Syria via Twitter, facing a maximum of 15 years in prison. Assistant attorney general John P Carlin said in a statement:
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