The Latest: Man gets 10 years for assisting in terror plot
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The Latest on the sentencing of a New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (all times local):
3:15 p.m.
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 10 years for aiding in a terror plot.
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Nader Saadeh pleaded guilty in 2015 to conspiracy to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization. In court on Monday he apologized for his actions.
He had faced a maximum sentence of 15 years, but received less time because his cooperation helped the government prosecute his older brother and two other men.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 10 to 12 years.
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At his plea hearing in 2015, Saadeh said he discussed plans to use bombs in Times Square and other New York locations.
Saadeh's older brother, Alaa, a former supervisor at an office supply store, is serving a 15-year sentence.
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10 a.m.
A New Jersey man is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court for aiding in a terror plot.
Nader Saadeh (nah-DAYR' sah-DAY') pleaded guilty in 2015 to conspiracy to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization. He's facing a maximum of 15 years in prison when he appears in a Newark court on Monday.
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Saadeh's brother, Alaa, received a 15-year sentence in 2016.
At the time of his arrest, prosecutors said Nader Saadeh helped his brother pay for a plane ticket to travel overseas to join the Islamic State group.
At Nader Saadeh's plea hearing in 2015, he acknowledged a co-defendant showed him diagrams for making bombs and discussed plans to use them in Times Square, at the World Trade Center and Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Queens.