A. U.S. court convicted the owner of an ice cream shop of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist groups, including Hamas. Abad Elfgeeh, 50, an immigrant from Yemen, faces 15 years in federal prison after being found guilty of funneling $21.9 million from bank accounts linked to his store in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
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