Karunakaran Kandasamy

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:2010s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
5 Years 17 Days
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Karunakaran Kandasamy

Biography

Karunakaran Kandasamy was head of the American branch of the Tamil Tigers and operated a front organization called the World Tamil Coordinating Committee. An FBI search of WTCC’s office turned up boxes of Tamil Tigers records that confirmed Kandasamy’s support of the terrorist organization in Sri Lanka.

Case characteristics: FBI sting operation, FBI confidential informant. Organization referenced in charging documents: Tamil Tigers.

Case data and description from The Intercept's Trial and Terror project (Trevor Aaronson and Margot Williams), licensed CC BY-NC. Source: https://github.com/theintercept/trial-and-terror-data

Case

Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn
Charges: Conspiring to provide material support to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam / Tamil Tigers), 18 U.S.C. 2339B.
Arrested: Apr 25, 2007
Sentenced: May 12, 2012
Incarcerated: Apr 25, 2007
Released: May 12, 2012
Sentence: Sentenced May 12, 2012 to time served (about five years / 1,844 days in pretrial detention). Chief Judge Dearie rejected the 20-year term sought by prosecutors as excessive and released him. Verdict as recorded: Yes — pleaded guilty June 9, 2009 before Chief U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie (EDNY, Brooklyn).
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Guilty plea to conspiring to provide material support to the LTTE, entered June 9, 2009.
Institution State: New York

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