Bitcoin, bank fraud and bloodshed: New York woman pleads guilty to supporting ISIS terror group
November 26, 2018 at 15:56 PM EST
Zoobia Shahnaz, a 27-year-old resident of Brentwood, Long Island, admitted to wiring more than $150,000 to individuals and shell entities that were fronts for ISIS in Pakistan, China and Turkey in 2017. Shahnaz engaged in a scheme to scam banks by fraudulently obtaining six credit cards, according to another court filing. She then bought more than $62,703 in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and converted the currencies to cash.
