Los Angeles: The man who led the Muslims to protest against the blasphemous film across the world especially in the Muslim lands, almost triggering them to create uprising in those areas was sentenced to a year in Federal for probation violations in an unrelated matter.
The decision to imprison the culprit came on Wednesday after a plea bargain between lawyers for Mark Bassely Youssef and federal prosecutors. Youssef admitted in open court that he had used a number of false names in infringement of his trial order and attained a driver’s license under a false name. He was on probation for a bank fraud case.
US District Court Judge Christina Snyder accepted the appeal accord and straight away sentenced Youssef after he confessed to four of the eight alleged violations, including obtaining a fraudulent California driver’s license.
However, prosecutors settled to discard the other four allegations under the plea deal, which also included more probation time and all the parties agreed that none of the violations had to do with the content of ”Innocence of Muslims.