ISIS
United States v. Hardy Lee Browner
Status: Hardy Lee Browner: Sentenced, February 7, 2025
- District
- Northern District of Illinois
- Docket number
- Not matched
- Group named in DOJ releases
- ISIS
- Statutes
- Not stated in DOJ release
- First DOJ release
- February 7, 2025
Primary Sources
- Defendant Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting a Minor and Lying to the FBI About Pro-ISIS Social Media Postings, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois, February 7, 2025
Status and dates follow these DOJ releases. Docket details from CourtListener (RECAP).
Hardy Lee Browner
- Status
- Sentenced (DOJ release, February 7, 2025)
- From the DOJ release:
HARDY LEE BROWNER, 37, of Chicago, pleaded guilty in 2023 to one count of making a materially false statement to the FBI involving international terrorism and one count of soliciting a minor to engage in commercial sex.
- Age
- 37 (per DOJ release of February 7, 2025)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- making a materially false statement to the FBI involving international terrorism and soliciting a minor to engage in commercial sex
- Charged or arrested
- Before coverage period or not stated
- Sentencing
- February 7, 2025
- Sentence
- 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of court-supervised release (DOJ, February 7, 2025)
Cite: Middle East Forum, Islamist Terrorism Prosecutions, "United States v. Hardy Lee Browner," accessed October 13, 2026, https://cases.meforum.org/case/us-v-browner-2025/