Three Somali immigrants convicted of funneling nearly $11,000 to a terrorist organization in their native country have been sentenced to prison.
A federal judge in San Diego on Monday imposed the longest term — 18 years — on Basaaly Saeed Moalin. The judge said he went beyond raising money for al-Shabab by offering the al-Qaida-linked militia group the use of his house in Mogadishu.
Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was a popular imam at a mosque in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood.
Issa Doreh was sentenced to 10 years. Prosecutors say he helped lead the fundraising drive.
A fourth defendant — Anaheim cabdriver Ahmed Nasiri Taalil Mohamud — is set to be sentenced Jan. 31.
The case was built on hundreds of phone calls the government secretly recorded.
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