Chicago coder sentenced to 7 1/2 years for terrorism charge - Danbury News Times

Nov. 18, 2022Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 12:55 p.m.

The condemnation handed down Thursday was little than the 15 years prosecutors had sought.

The erstwhile DePaul machine subject pupil has been successful custody since being arrested successful Chicago successful 2019 during an FBI sting.

Defense attorneys painted Osadzinski, who was calved and raised successful the Chicago suburb Northbrook, arsenic a naive pupil who “got sucked in" to extremist ideologies, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Before helium was sentenced, Osadzinski apologized to his parents successful the courtroom and told the judge, “I wholly cull ISIS.”

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman, who ordered that the situation word beryllium followed by 10 years of court-supervised release, said determination was a wide gulf betwixt mediocre judgement and Osadzinski’s conduct, which included pledging fealty to a “hideous group” specified arsenic the Islamic State and “promoting and encouraging” its convulsive connection astir the globe.

“I deliberation you recognize present however superior this is,” Gettleman told Osadzinski. “You person shown remorse. Is it genuine? I anticipation so.”

The FBI said successful a transgression ailment that Osadzinski boasted that helium would usage a weapon and explosives to elude authorities if request be.