A New Yorker was convicted on Tuesday of providing material support to the Islamic State in Syria.
According to the department, Asainov converted to Islam in 2009. He quit his job as a stockbroker, spending an increasing amount of his time watching radical Islamic sermons online, according to a report in theIn December 2013, Asainov abandoned his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, traveling to Syria via Turkey on a one-way ticket, the department said.
The department said that on one occasion he even sent a photograph to his ex-wife of three dead fighters.Asainov continued to pledge his allegiance to the foreign terrorist organisation, according to Breon Peace, a US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, per the press release.