Former SEMO student sentenced to 30 years in bomb plot

Sunday, August 11, 2013

NEW YORK -- A 22-year-old Bangladeshi man who spent a semester at Southeast Missouri State University begged for leniency after pleading guilty to terrorism charges for trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. He was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

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