A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran who was previously arrested as part of a scheme to assassinate prominent U.S. government officials has been charged with additional crimes of terrorism and murder-for-hire, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Asif Merchant, 46, was indicted Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York on charges of attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and murder-for-hire as part of a scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official on U.S. soil, the DOJ said in a news release.
In July, he was arrested on an interstate murder-for-hire charge, and he is in federal custody. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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