(NY Daily News) It was a three-minute crime with a 30-year penalty, a prosecutor said Tuesday in the trial of a Brooklyn man accused of financing a terrorist operation.
Opening arguments began in the trial of Dilkhayot Kasimov, who is accused of providing $1,600 to a co-conspirator at an airport in 2015.
“Late on a night in February, 2015, that man drove to JFK in Queens,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Haggans told jurors in Brooklyn Federal Court. “The defendant was trying to find a man, a man who was trying to board a plane. He found the man. He handed him a stack of cash. That man intended to fly to Syria. He wanted to join ISIS.”
