An East Elmhurst man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for plotting to commit a mass knife attack on civilians at the World’s Fair Marina in Corona with a knife to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in 2019.

Awais Chudhary, 25, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2022 in Brooklyn federal court.

“Awais Chudhary pledged allegiance to a brutal terrorist organization and set out to kill American citizens,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said. “Our prosecutors have ensured that he will spend years behind bars for his crimes, and the Department of Justice will continue to protect the American people from all threats foreign and domestic.”

Chudhary was 19 when fe

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