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World News See other World News Articles Title: Reputed suburban gang leader caught on video handing over $500 meant for ISIS soldier, feds allege. ‘You ainÂ’t gotta say my name.Â’ Reputed suburban gang leader caught on video handing over $500 meant for ISIS soldier, feds allege. ‘You ain’t gotta say my name.’ By Jason Meisner Chicago Tribune | Nov 15, 2019 | 4:17 PM Reputed gang leader Jason Brown was meeting with an associate in August when he allegedly counted out $500 in cash under the table he thought was going to be wired to a terrorist fighter overseas. When the associate asked Brown if he wanted him to tell the terrorist where the money came from, Brown smiled and pointed a finger in the air, saying, “Allah knows,” federal prosecutors allege. “That’s the only one that needs to know, as long as they get it,” criminal charges unsealed in U.S. District Court on Friday quoted Brown as saying. “You ain’t gotta say my name.” What Brown didn’t know was that his associate was working undercover for the FBI and the whole transaction was a ruse he’d captured on video. That meeting was at the center of a criminal complaint accusing Brown, the reputed leader of the Bellwood-based AHK street gang, of handing over a total of $1,500 in cash to the associate over three separate occasions this year, believing the money would be wired to the associate’s cousin, a terrorist fighting in Syria. Brown, 37, of Lombard, was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, an offense that carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence if convicted. Reputed gang leader Jason Brown holds up $500 that the FBI says he expected to be wired to an ISIS soldier in Syria. The photo was taken from the criminal complaint in federal court in Chicago. (Federal court record) The 28-page complaint alleged that Brown, who converted to Islam while serving a stint in prison, used his position as the leader of to actively recruit and radicalize other gang members to support ISIS. Brown, who also goes by the name Abdul Ja’Me, was arrested Thursday, and the ensuing raid on his home on a quiet block in Lombard prompted news helicopters to hover overheard for hours. A detention hearing is set for next Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sunil Harjani. Brown’s attorney, Nicholas Grapsas, declined to comment Friday. Six other alleged AHK members or associates were also arrested Thursday on federal drug charges, and an arrest warrant was issued for a seventh suspected member. As part of the investigation, law enforcement executed search warrants at numerous locations, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. The charges against Brown aren’t the first time a Chicago-area street gang has allegedly been linked to terrorist activity. In 1987, Jeff Fort, the ruthless El Rukn gang leader, was convicted of plotting acts of domestic terrorism in exchange for $2.5 million from Libya. Fort, now 72, is serving an 80-year sentence in the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado. According to the charges, AHK is made up of former members of other street gangs, including the Gangster Disciples, Black P Stones and Four Corner Hustlers. Its name is a variation of the Arabic word “akh” that means “brother,” the complaint said. Brown formed the gang after converting to Islam while serving time in a Georgia prison for a gun-related conviction, the charges alleged. He also has been convicted of attempted murder and has a lengthy criminal record in Cook County, including numerous convictions for drug offenses, according to information provided in the complaint as well as court records. Undercover FBI recordings made in the case captured other members of the gang talking about Brown’s recruiting tactics, including sharing violent videos of jihad with each other, the complaint alleged. “When I came home from the joint, they were sending each other videos ... like s--- t you ain’t supposed to look at, you feel me?” one gang member said in a conversation in January that was captured on an undercover FBI recording. “They teaching the shorties that they could do s--- that I never heard nobody in my life say.” Brown was also recorded saying that beheading was an appropriate punishment for anyone who spoke against the Prophet Mohammad, according to the complaint. “His head gotta go,” the complaint quoted Brown as saying. Beginning in March, Brown allegedly discussed with a different informant his plans to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State, saying, “you gotta establish the State ... and then you gotta have an army,” the complaint alleged. Under the direction of the FBI, the informant told Brown he had a cousin who was an ISIS fighter overseas and whose son had died a martyr. Brown allegedly expressed his approval, telling the informant he was going to send the cousin money but needed to “find the right moment” since he believed he was being watched by law enforcement, according to the complaint. “I done been locked up. I done have murders and everything, (brother), you see what I’m saying," Brown was quoted as saying to the informant in August. Three weeks after Brown gave the associate the first $500 payment, the informant showed Brown a photograph, purportedly of his cousin wearing new combat gear. The informant said his cousin was so happy with the support that he wrote Brown an Islamic verse, the complaint alleged. Brown allegedly giggled as he read it, saying, “I mean ... for sure. That’s what’s up,” the complaint alleged. After driving back to Bellwood, Brown allegedly left another $500 in the car for the informant to send to his cousin, according to the charges. Brown allegedly gave another $500 to the informant during a meeting on Oct. 4. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
This black guy living in west suburban Lombard, Illinois is obviously there because when the CHA projects in Chicago were torn down, they were all moved to Section 8 housing in the west suburbs. My sister told me she knew a woman that was a cop out there. She said, "Things are not the way they used to be." The drug dealers go where the drug consumers are located. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
First, what is a Sunil Harjani? Second, why isn't this a deportation hearing to send Abdul over to the ME? “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
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