MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — A Long Island man charged with facilitating illegal money transfers from Pakistan to New York, including one that was sent to admitted Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, pleaded guilty Thursday.
Mohammad Younis, 45, admitted to giving cash to Shahzad while working as a middleman for an overseas donor that was really an extremist group.
Shahzad used the funds to try to blow up a Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on May 1, 2010, but the bomb malfunctioned.
He pleaded guilty the next month, but warned of future terror attacks. He also refused to express remorse for his attempt.
The admitted would-be terrorist told authorities the cash came from the Tehrik-e-Taliban in Pakistan, the group that trained him in bomb making, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Shahzad is currently serving a life sentence in federal prison.
Younis, who appeared in Manhattan Federal Court Thursday afternoon, was not aware that Shahzad intended to use the money to carry out an attack in New York City, the U.S. Attorney's office said
Younis faces up to five years in prison when he's sentenced on Nov. 30.
