Convictions Affirmed in Terror Funding Case That Used Phone Data

Four Somali immigrants failed to convince the Ninth Circuit Wednesday to order new proceedings over convictions for sending or conspiring to send money to Somalia to support a terrorist group, despite a finding the government may have violated the Fourth Amendment when it collected telephone metadata.

Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, Issa Doreh, and Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, all immigrants to the U.S., were convicted on multiple counts in connection with sending money to al-Shabaab, a group designated by the U.S. as a foreign terror organization. Prior to trial, Moalin sought to suppress the government’s evidence it obtained via ...