A New Yorker-turned-ISIS recruiter nicknamed “Umm Nuteella” faces as much as 70 years in jail after an appeals court docket tossed her preliminary “shockingly low” 48-month sentence for reinforcing the fear group.
Sinmyah Ceasar, 29, allegedly continued to speak with terrorist contacts — and even solicited cash to assist an ISIS supporter — whereas she was out on supervised launch following her launch from lockup, Brooklyn federal prosecutors stated.
“There is simply no other terrorism defendant who compares to the defendant’s history of recidivism, and her persistence and consistency in disobeying the lawful authority of the Court,” the feds wrote in a memo forward of her upcoming re-sentencing.
Ceasar was infamously sentenced to only 4 years behind bars in 2019 by the late Choose Jack Weinstein, who claimed that the Brooklyn lady simply wanted academic and psychological well being help that may “save her as a human being.”
She had confronted as much as life in jail after pleading responsible to fees of offering materials help to ISIS and obstruction of justice.
However Ceasar served the slap-on-the-wrist sentence and was sprung in July 2020 to start serving eight years of supervised launch.
However the 2nd US Circuit Court docket of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s determination in August 2021, calling it a “shockingly low” penalty — and ordered that Ceasar be re-sentenced.
In the meantime, Ceasar blew off a court-ordered look on Aug. 25, 2021 after the appeals determination — and reduce off her ankle monitoring bracelet in an try and flee to Russia as a result of she didn’t wish to return to jail, federal prosecutors have stated.
She was arrested days later when she was discovered hiding out at an auto physique store in New Mexico.
Throughout her 13 month’s out on supervised launch, Ceasar “almost immediately” began violating the phrases of her launch — together with calling a recognized Taliban supporter twice from a landline at a Queens lodge simply weeks after she was launched from jail, in keeping with the feds.
She additionally solicited cash for an ISIS supporter and repeatedly lied to her probation officer about utilizing social media, which included her liking a put up by a person who had the ISIS flag as his profile image.
Caesar “intended to marry” ISIS wannabe Fareed Mumuni — who’s serving a 25-year sentence for planning to assault an FBI agent — however the marriage fell aside after her pal disapproved, in keeping with court docket filings.
“The defendant repeatedly violated court ordered conditions, and to be clear, admitted to the court that she violated those conditions,” Brooklyn prosecutors Ian C. Richardson stated about Ceasar, who pleaded responsible in October 2022 to failing to seem to court docket.
The admitted ISIS sympathizer was set to be re-sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court docket however Choose Kiyo A. Matsumoto pushed the date again to February after attorneys stated they nonetheless needed to file extra paperwork.
Her protection legal professional, Deirdre von Dornum, pushed for the sentencing to be postponed as a consequence of “issues of concern” relating to whether or not or not she violated supervised launch.
Prosecutors are in search of a sentence of 30 to 70 years in jail.
They’d hunted for her to be jailed for a time period of 30 to 50 years on the time of her unique sentencing in 2019.
Her attorneys stated then that Caesar — who was charged with offering materials help to ISIS in 2016 – was raped as a baby and suffered from PTSD.
The origin of her uncommon ISIS moniker stays unclear.
