An Illinois man will spend up to 162 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State, the Department of Justice announced.
Edward Schimenti, 39, was given the 13.5-year sentence Friday after being convicted in 2019 on one count of conspiring to provide material support and resources to ISIS and one count of making false statements to the FBI.
Schimenti advocated for violent extremism in support of ISIS on social media, according to the Justice Department. In 2015, he began meeting with undercover FBI employees and other individuals who were working with law enforcement, discussing his devotion to ISIS during the meetings.
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Schimenti also furnished cellphones to one of those cooperating with authorities in 2017, which he believed would be used to detonate explosive devices in ISIS attacks overseas, the Justice Department said. Schimenti drove with the cooperating individual to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on April 7, 2017, under the impression that the person would be traveling to Syria to fight with ISIS.
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Schimenti’s co-defendant, Joseph Jones, 39, was convicted of a conspiracy charge and sentenced in March to 12 years in prison.
