'Innocence Of Muslims' Filmmaker Is Heading To Federal Prison [View all]

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The man responsible for an anti-Muslim film that was once blamed for terrorist attacks is going to be spending a year behind bars.

Mark Bassely Youssef, who's known by a myriad of aliases, was arrested in September on charges of probation violation.

He was convicted in 2010 of bank fraud and was ordered not to own or use devices with access to the Internet, a condition prosecutors believe he violated when he uploaded his movie to the Internet.

Youssef admitted in open court Wednesday that he had violated his probation and was immediately sentenced to one year in federal prison, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.


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