An East Elmhurst man was convicted Oct. 24 of all counts in a federal indictment charging him with sending thousands of dollars to support weapons purchases in the Mideast by the terror group ISIS.

Abdullah At Taqi was part of a conspiracy that used cryptocurrency and other electronic means to send the money to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a jury found. One co-defendant pleaded guilty last January, another did the same on Oct. 6 and a final member of the group was prosecuted in Canada, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

“The defendants used Bitcoin, PayPal and GoFundMe to fund ISIS’s deadly mission,” U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District Joseph Nocella Jr. said in a prepared statement. “ISIS relies on supporters, like the defendants,

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