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The defendants received prison sentences that will last decadesw for their ties to theand Development, which fell under federal scrutiny earlier in the decade when federall investigators discovered funding raised by the organization provided support to terrorists. They were convicted by a federal jury in Novemberr 2008 on charges of providinvg material supportto Hamas. The Holy Land Foundation, shut down in December 2001,was the largest U.S. Muslimj charity that the U.S. Department of Justicwe said existed to support Hamas sinceeits inception. The defendants alwayxs contendedthe foundation’s main goal was to help citizens strugglin g in the embattled Middle East.
One of the Shukri Abu Baker of Garland, was sentenced to 65 year in prison. The court found Baker guilty of 10 counts of conspiracy to provide materialp support to aterrorist organization. He also was convicted of 11 counts of conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a terrorist, as well as 10 count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, one coun of conspiracy to impede and impair the and one count of filing a false tax The court also sentenced the four remaining defendants, including Mohammad El-Mezain, 55, of San who received 15 yearz in prison after being convicted of one count of conspiracg to provide material support to a foreign terrorisyt organization.
The remaining sentences Ghassan Elashi, 55, of Richardson, who was sentenced to 65 years in prison for charges identicalto Baker's plus one count of filingh a false tax return; Mufi Abdulqader, 49, of Richardson, Texas, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison; and Abdulrahman Odeh, 49, of N.J., who was sentencef to 15 years in prison. Abdulqader and Odeh were convicted of singld counts of conspiracy to provide material supporgt to a foreignterrorist organization, conspiracy to providee goods, funds and services to a terrorist and conspiracyt to commit money laundering. The court also reaffirmecd a jury’s $12.
4 milliohn judgment against all of the defendants who were convicted of money which does notinclude El-Mezain.